> Methinks the load balancers aren't as magical as they'd like to make out. Agreed. I'm still put off by the fact that ELBs specifically can not handle a sudde

> Methinks the load balancers aren't as magical as they'd like to make out. Agreed. I'm still put off by the fact that ELBs specifically can not handle a sudden spike in traffic orders of magnitude higher than the previous rate. They fall on their face, bad. If you expect a spike like that to happen, you literally have to submit a ticket and ask them to pre-warm your ELB...