Hello and welcome to this Cloud Academy presentation. A little bit about myself, I'm Jorge Negron and I'm part of the AWS content development team here at Cloud Academy. If you have any questions about the material being discussed, please feel free to contact me, Jorge.negron@cloudacademy.com using the details on the screen. As an alternative, you can always get in touch with us here at Cloud Academy by sending an email to support@cloudacademy.com, where one of our cloud experts will reply to your question. 

In this course, we introduce the latest edition to the AWS Elastic Load Balancer family, the AWS Gateway Load Balancer. It solves the problem of scaling third-party virtual network appliance deployments to match the scalability of your applications. Network appliances examine network traffic both inbound and outbound, usually for network security reasons like intrusion detection systems. Before the introduction of the Gateway Load Balancer, scaling and network appliance deployment was difficult to implement for a number of network technical issues. 

We are going to clarify the basic architecture for using AWS Gateway Load Balancer and discuss a number of features about Amazon VPCs. This course is intended for architects and network engineers looking to understand the basic function and operation of the AWS Gateway Load Balancer in Amazon VPCs. This course also covers some of the objectives for both the Solutions Architect Professional certification exam and the AWS Networking Specialty certification exams. This course is an advanced-level AWS networking course. 

You will learn about the Gateway Load Balancer and how it's implemented to support virtual network appliance deployments in Amazon VPCs. To get the most out of this course, you will need to meet the requirements for any of the Associate-level certifications by AWS or the equivalent experience. This session expects that you are fluent with the fundamentals of networking using AWS, including VPC, subnets, route tables and VPC endpoints among other features. For details about these items, you can refer to the course working With AWS Networking and Amazon VPCs here at Cloud Academy. 

For details about using Elastic Load Balancers and EC2 Auto Scaling to support AWS workloads, you can refer to the course listing of the same name here at Cloud Academy. Feedback on our courses at Cloud Academy is valuable to us, trainers, and any other students looking to take the same course in the future. If you have any feedback, positive or otherwise, please share it with us by sending an email to support@cloudacademy.com. At the time of this writing, all course information was accurate. 

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