Ask HN: What kind of applications use ELB?

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I am trying to get a sense of the kind of applications that use the Elastic Load Balancing feature of Amazon EC2. Are they computation intensive or more data intensive? Concrete examples would be great.

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ELB is well suited towards web traffic versus general TCP load balancing as you could accomplish with Pound, or HAProxy.

So theres a good chance ELB is mostly used to load balance between web servers to scale out horizontally as single web/app servers reach their limits

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