# Elastic Load Balancing Documentation

Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes your incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses, in one or more Availability Zones. It monitors the health of its registered targets and routes traffic only to the healthy targets. You can select the type of load balancer that best suits your needs.

## Overview

- [User Guide](/elasticloadbalancing/latest/userguide/): Learn about Elastic Load Balancing.

## Elastic Load Balancing - Version 2

- [User Guide for Application Load Balancers](/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/): Use Application Load Balancers for HTTP and HTTPS traffic. The load balancer routes based on the content of the request.
- [User Guide for Network Load Balancers](/elasticloadbalancing/latest/network/): Use Network Load Balancers for TCP, UDP, and TLS traffic where extreme performance is required.
- [User Guide for Gateway Load Balancers](/elasticloadbalancing/latest/gateway/): Use Gateway Load Balancers to deploy, scale, and manage virtual appliances, such as firewalls.
- [AWS CLI Reference](/cli/latest/reference/elbv2/): Provides syntax and examples for the commands.
- [API Reference](/elasticloadbalancing/latest/APIReference/): Provides syntax and examples for the API actions.

## Elastic Load Balancing - Version 1

- [User Guide for Classic Load Balancers](/elasticloadbalancing/latest/classic/): Use Classic Load Balancers to distribute incoming application traffic across multiple EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones. Classic Load Balancers are the previous generation of load balancers from ELB. We recommend that you migrate to a current generation load balancer.
- [API Reference](/elasticloadbalancing/2012-06-01/APIReference/): Provides syntax and examples for the API actions.
- [AWS CLI Reference](/cli/latest/reference/elb/): Provides syntax and examples for the commands.

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