Create a Gateway Load Balancer
A Gateway Load Balancer takes requests from clients and distributes them across targets in a target group, such as EC2 instances.
To create a Gateway Load Balancer using the AWS Management Console, complete the following tasks. Alternatively, to create a Gateway Load Balancer using the AWS CLI, see Getting started using the CLI.
Prerequisites
Before you begin, ensure that the virtual private cloud (VPC) for your Gateway Load Balancer has at least one subnet in each Availability Zone where you have targets.
Create the load balancer
Use the following procedure to create your Gateway Load Balancer. Provide basic configuration information for your load balancer, such as a name and IP address type. Then provide information about your network, and the listener that routes traffic to your target groups. Gateway Load Balancers require target groups that use the GENEVE protocol.
Important next steps
After creating your load balancer, verify that your EC2 instances have passed the initial health check. To test your load balancer, you must create a Gateway Load Balancer endpoint and update your route table to make the Gateway Load Balancer endpoint the next hop. These configurations are set within the Amazon VPC console. For more information, see the Getting started tutorial.