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  "name": "AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)",
  "description": "AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) is a fully managed service that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. It provides the necessary scale, high availability, and security to ensure applications remain responsive and fault-tolerant.",
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      "slug": "cloud-native-load-balancing",
      "name": "Cloud Native Load Balancing"
    },
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    "founded": "2009",
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      "Self-managed Software Load Balancers: Manually configuring Nginx or HAProxy on EC2 instances to distribute traffic.",
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