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ELB

Fast Secured AWS Deployment: Elastic Beanstalk, IAM and ELB for TLS (SSL) Serving

The latest trends on major sites is to serve content using HTTPS only. It actually offers several interesting advantages, like:

  • Protection against Man-in-the-Middle Attacks, where someone is able to hear your connection and get sensitive information (e.g. cookies)
  • Avoids (to some extent) some nasty Bots and Spiders
  • Conveys more trust from Users, especially those who always ask “Where’s the Key Icon I’ve heard about on TV?” (e.g., your parents)

How to Send Emails Alert Based on AWS Elastic Load Balancer Alarms

How to Register an Additional EC2 Instance to an Existing AWS Elasic Load Balancer (ELB)

How to Remove an EC2 Instance from an Existing AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)

How to Update the SSL Certificate of an AWS Elastic Load Balancer

The AWS Elastic Load Balancer functions as a gateway for all the traffic to your data servers. The SSL, additionally, is used to encrypt data in transit. In order to keep your data safe, it’s not enough just to encrypt data in transit. There are more considerations that need to be made to keep your Amazon environments safe. For now, let’s discuss how to update the SSL Certificate of an AWS ELB. At the end of this post, I will circle back to the security issues that need to be taken into consideration.

How to Add a New Listener to an Existing Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)

How to Edit or Delete an Existing Listener from an Elastic Load Balancer

How to Set an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) with Session Stickiness

How to Find and Delete an Existing AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)

How to Setup an AWS ELB with HTTP Support

Hitchhiker's Guide to The Cloud

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