The Traffic Controller: Mastering AWS Elastic Load Balancing

This hands-on workshop continues the Spring 2026 AWS Cloud Club series with a focused deep dive into one of the most critical components of modern cloud architectures: traffic management and load balancing. In distributed systems, how traffic is routed, scaled, and secured directly determines availability, performance, and resilience.

We’re excited to host Benard Otom Owino, a Cloud Support Engineer (Networking) at AWS and an Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Subject Matter Expert, for a practical session titled “The Traffic Controller: Mastering AWS Elastic Load Balancing.” Drawing from over five years of real-world experience, Benard will unpack how AWS networking services are used in production to solve complex architectural challenges.

### The session is structured in two parts:

Part 1: Traffic & Architecture Foundations
A focused technical walkthrough covering:

• How traffic flows through AWS architectures
• Elastic Load Balancing concepts and patterns
• Designing for high availability and scalability
• Integrating ELB with services like VPC, Auto Scaling, WAF, Global Accelerator, and App Mesh/Lattice

This segment builds architectural intuition and shows how load balancing decisions impact performance, fault tolerance, and security.
Part 2: Practical Design & Use Cases
Participants will explore real-world ELB use cases and best practices, including:

• Choosing the right type of load balancer
• Common misconfigurations and how to avoid them
• Observability with CloudWatch and EventBridge
• Applying network security controls using Security Groups and NACLs

This workshop is suitable for both beginners and experienced practitioners and fits into a progressive learning journey aimed at building production-ready, well-architected AWS systems.