AWS whitepapers documentation change
Summary
Updated terminology from 'ELB' to 'Elastic Load Balancing' throughout the document for consistency and clarity
Security assessment
The changes are purely terminological updates (ELB → Elastic Load Balancing) with no modifications to security recommendations, configurations, or vulnerability references. Health check recommendations remain unchanged.
Diff
diff --git a/whitepapers/latest/best-practices-wordpress/scaling-the-web-tier.md b/whitepapers/latest/best-practices-wordpress/scaling-the-web-tier.md index 84cd7b15f..9c42ea0bd 100644 --- a//whitepapers/latest/best-practices-wordpress/scaling-the-web-tier.md +++ b//whitepapers/latest/best-practices-wordpress/scaling-the-web-tier.md @@ -28 +28 @@ Because you have complete control of your EC2 instance, you can log in with root -To distribute end-user requests to multiple web server nodes, you need a load balancing solution. AWS provides this capability through [ELB](https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/), a highly available service that distributes traffic to multiple EC2 instances. Because your website is serving content to your users via HTTP or HTTPS, we recommend that you make use of the Application Load Balancer, an application-layer load balancer with content routing and the ability to run multiple WordPress websites on different domains, if required. +To distribute end-user requests to multiple web server nodes, you need a load balancing solution. AWS provides this capability through [Elastic Load Balancing](https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/), a highly available service that distributes traffic to multiple EC2 instances. Because your website is serving content to your users via HTTP or HTTPS, we recommend that you make use of the Application Load Balancer, an application-layer load balancer with content routing and the ability to run multiple WordPress websites on different domains, if required. @@ -30 +30 @@ To distribute end-user requests to multiple web server nodes, you need a load ba -ELB supports distribution of requests across multiple Availability Zones within an AWS Region. You can also configure a health check so that the Application Load Balancer automatically stops sending traffic to individual instances that have failed (for example, due to a hardware problem or software crash). AWS recommends using the WordPress admin login page (`/wp-login.php`) for the health check because this page confirms both that the web server is running and that the web server is configured to serve PHP files correctly. +Elastic Load Balancing supports distribution of requests across multiple Availability Zones within an AWS Region. You can also configure a health check so that the Application Load Balancer automatically stops sending traffic to individual instances that have failed (for example, due to a hardware problem or software crash). AWS recommends using the WordPress admin login page (`/wp-login.php`) for the health check because this page confirms both that the web server is running and that the web server is configured to serve PHP files correctly. @@ -36 +36 @@ Elasticity is a key characteristic of the AWS Cloud. You can launch more compute -ELB also supports dynamic addition and removal of Amazon EC2 hosts from the load-balancing rotation. ELB itself also dynamically increases and decreases the load-balancing capacity to adjust to traffic demands with no manual intervention. +Elastic Load Balancing also supports dynamic addition and removal of Amazon EC2 hosts from the load-balancing rotation. Elastic Load Balancing itself also dynamically increases and decreases the load-balancing capacity to adjust to traffic demands with no manual intervention.