Hello, and welcome to this course where I shall explain how you can use both Elastic Load Balancing, ELBs, and EC2 Auto Scaling to help manage and control your AWS workloads to support demands put upon your infrastructure while minimizing performance degradation. I'll cover both topics independently first before discussing how they can be used as a single and effective solution. 

Before I start, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Stuart Scott. I'm one of the trainers here at Cloud Academy, specializing in AWS, Amazon Web Services. Feel free to contact me with any questions using the detail shown on screen. Alternatively, 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. 

This course has been created for engineers who are responsible for the day to day operations of maintaining and managing workloads across AWS. Or Solutions Architects who are designing solutions across AWS infrastructure, and those who are looking to begin their certification journey with either the AWS Cloud Practitioner or one of the three associate level certifications. This course will effectively be broken down into two sections. Firstly, I shall begin by explaining Elastic Load Balancing, including the different types of ELBs and their use cases and configuration. And in this section, I shall be looking at what is an Elastic Load Balancer. Server certificates for encrypted requests. The Application Load Balancer. The Network Load Balancer, and the Classic Load Balancer. 

Following this, I will then dive into EC2 Auto Scaling, explaining the benefits and configuration behind it. And here I shall cover what is Auto Scaling, components of EC2 Auto Scaling. And finally, I'll be looking at how to use Elastic Load Balancing and EC2 Auto Scaling together. This will then be followed with a summary lecture, highlighting the key points throughout the previous lectures. 

By the end of this course, you will understand what an Elastic Load Balancer is and what it's used for. You'll be aware of the different load balancers available to you in AWS. You'll understand how ELBs handle different types of requests, including those that are encrypted. You'll be able to identify the different components of ELBs. Know how to configure the different ELBs. You'll know why and when you might need to configure an SSL or TLS certificate. You'll understand what EC2 Auto Scaling is. And you'll be able to configure auto scaling launch configurations, launch templates and auto scaling groups. And finally, you'll be able to explain why you should use ELBs and auto scaling together. 

To get the most in this course, then you should be familiar with basic concepts of AWS, and be familiar with some of its core components, such as VPC and EC2. You should also have an understanding of the AWS global infrastructure and the different components used to define it. For more information on this topic, please see our existing blog here. 

Throughout this course I will reference a number of URL links which will help and direct you to related information on specific topics. To make these links easily accessible to you, I have included them at top of the transcript within the lecture that they are referenced. Feedback at our courses here at Cloud Academy are available to both us as trainers and any students looking to take the same course in the future. If you have any feedback, positive or negative, it'll be greatly appreciated if you can contact support@cloudacademy.com. 

That brings me to the end of this lecture. Coming up next, I shall be providing an explanation of what an Elastic Load Balancer is.