AWS ELB

· #352 most-used

Managed load balancers that route traffic at any scale

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AWS Elastic Load Balancing distributes incoming application, network, and gateway traffic across multiple targets — EC2 instances, containers, IPs, and Lambda functions — across one or more availability zones. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can provision Application Load Balancers on demand, register and deregister targets in response to deployment events, audit listener certificates before they expire, and react instantly when target health degrades — all without anyone logging into the AWS Console.

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Average time saved

11 hours

per person · per month

≈ 1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Automates manual certificate expiry checks, idle load balancer cleanup, and post-deployment target health polling that engineers otherwise run by hand across dozens of AWS accounts.

Schedule

What your AWS ELB agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

28Scheduled jobs

7Agents at work

24/7Always on

Agents

Wed–Fri

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Multi-app workflows

AWS ELB × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows

9Apps spanned

~25 hrsSaved / week

6Personas served

For customer success

Featured4 apps

Auto-route unhealthy targets to standby

When a customer reports degraded API performance and a support ticket lands in Gmail, your agent reads the ALB target group health, identifies the unhealthy instance, creates a new load balancer pointing to the standby target group, and posts a resolution summary in Slack with an updated calendar entry for the post-mortem — the customer gets a fix acknowledgement before you finish reading the alert.

~6 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow

Trigger·When a customer support email arrives reporting API timeouts or 5XX errors

Trigger

Step 1

Gmail

New email received from customer

read

Step 2

AWS ELB

Describe target health across production target group

write

Step 3

AWS ELB

Deregister unhealthy targets from target group

write

Step 4

Slack

Post resolution progress to #customer-escalations

write

Step 5

Google Calendar

Schedule post-mortem review

Result

Deregister unhealthy targets from target groupPost resolution progress to #customer-escalationsSchedule post-mortem review

The win

Saved per run

45 min

Runs / week

~8×

Customer sees action in under 5 minutes

Driven byCustomer Support Agent

ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

Sales
19 min / week
Demo env health check
Sales engineers log into AWS console before each demo to verify the ALB is up and certificates are valid — 19 minutes of manual clicking per check.
Sales Agent
0 min
Agent pre-checks infra
Agent reads ALB state and listener cert validity before each demo slot and posts a green/red status to Slack, so sales walks in confident.
Marketing
14 min / week
Launch-day infra verify
Marketing relies on engineering to manually confirm load balancers are protected and payment pages are reachable before major campaign launches — delays and last-minute scrambles.
Marketing Agent
0 min
Agent locks prod ALBs
Agent enables deletion protection on all production ALBs and verifies HTTPS reachability the moment a campaign is activated in HubSpot.
Customer Support
19 min / week
Outage triage lag
Support agents wait for engineering to diagnose whether a customer-reported API timeout is a load balancer issue — mean time to context can exceed 30 minutes.
Customer Support Agent
0 min
Agent delivers root cause
Agent reads target health and posts a per-target breakdown to the incident channel within 60 seconds of a support ticket arriving.
Human Resources
8 min / week
Onboarding infra access
HR coordinates with engineering to provision access to the AWS console for new DevOps hires — manual IAM setup takes 8+ minutes per new joiner.
Human Resources Agent
0 min
Agent audits access scope
Agent reads existing load balancer configurations and generates an access scope report for onboarding reviews, reducing back-and-forth with engineering.
Finance
14 min / week
Idle ALB cost audit
Finance asks engineering monthly to identify unused load balancers — engineers manually filter by tags, check target counts, and report back, consuming 14 minutes of costly engineering time.
Finance Agent
0 min
Agent finds and kills orphans
Agent identifies and deletes load balancers with zero healthy targets tagged dev or staging, logging each deletion with its estimated hourly cost saving.
Operations
30 min / week
Manual ALB provisioning
Operations engineers provision new load balancers by hand through the AWS console — selecting VPC, subnets, security groups, and listeners — taking 30+ minutes per service.
Operations Agent
0 min
Agent provisions in 3 minutes
Agent creates the ALB, attaches the HTTPS listener with the correct ACM certificate, and registers the target group the moment a new service row lands in the registry spreadsheet.
Legal
6 min / week
Compliance evidence pull
Legal requests manual evidence that all production load balancers use HTTPS and current certificates for compliance audits — engineering compiles the report by hand.
Legal Agent
0 min
Agent generates cert report
Agent reads all listener certificates across every production ALB and delivers a structured report to Google Sheets, ready for the auditor.

+ 100s of other AWS ELB automations

Average monthly

11 hrs / person / month

Average monthly

11 hrs / person / month

Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size

10 people

Hourly rate

$20 / hr

Hours saved / week

Hours saved / year

1,400

Annual ROI

$28,000

Based on AWS ELB's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~2.8 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug AWS ELB into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

The fastest path. Connect AWS ELB through the MCP server and your agent gains full access to load balancers, target groups, and listener certificates via a permissioned AWS credential handshake — no SDK configuration or credential files to manage.

Open the Apps tab

Find AWS ELB in the Apps library and click Connect. MCP is selected by default.

Authorise with your AWS credentials

Provide your AWS Access Key ID, Secret Access Key, and the default region (e.g. us-east-1). The agent uses these to authenticate all ELB API calls through the MCP server — use a least-privilege IAM user scoped to elasticloadbalancing:* and ec2:Describe*.

Test the connection

Actionist runs a read-only DescribeLoadBalancers call to verify the handshake. You're ready.

Actions

15 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

7 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

Skills

Skills that pair with AWS ELB

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MCP servers that work with AWS ELB

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FAQs

Questions about AWS ELB + Actionist

How do I connect AWS ELB to Actionist?

Open the Apps tab, find AWS ELB, and click Connect. The recommended path uses the MCP server with your AWS Access Key ID, Secret Access Key, and region — use an IAM user scoped to elasticloadbalancing:* and ec2:Describe* for least-privilege access. Actionist runs a DescribeLoadBalancers call to verify the credentials before saving.

What IAM permissions does the agent need?

For read-only workflows (audit, health checks), attach AmazonEC2ReadOnlyAccess and a custom policy with elasticloadbalancing:Describe*. For write workflows (create, delete, register targets), add elasticloadbalancing:* scoped to the relevant resource ARNs. Avoid AdministratorAccess — the agent only needs what your workflows actually call.

Which load balancer types does Actionist support?

Actionist supports Application Load Balancers (ALB), Network Load Balancers (NLB), and Gateway Load Balancers (GWLB) via the AWS ELB API. Classic Load Balancers use a separate API and are not covered. ALB is the most common and supports all listener certificate and target group actions in Actionist's action catalog.

Can the agent react to unhealthy targets automatically?

Yes — pair the Target unhealthy detected trigger with a Deregister Targets action to remove failing instances from the rotation the moment they fail health checks. You can also chain a Register Targets call to bring in standby instances, giving you automated failover without a human in the loop.

How does the agent handle multi-region load balancers?

The AWS ELB connection is region-scoped — each connection targets one AWS region. To manage load balancers across multiple regions, create one Actionist connection per region (e.g. us-east-1, eu-west-1) and reference the appropriate connection in each workflow step. The agent routes each API call to the correct regional endpoint automatically.

Will the agent accidentally delete a production load balancer?

Use the Modify Load Balancer Attributes action to enable deletion protection on production ALBs — this makes Delete calls fail with an explicit error, acting as a safety guard even if a workflow is misconfigured. The agent can also read the deletion-protection attribute before any delete action and abort if it's enabled.

Can I use Actionist to rotate SSL/TLS certificates automatically?

Yes. Pair the Get Many action on Listener Certificates with a date filter to find certificates expiring within 30 days, then use Add to attach the renewed ACM certificate and Remove to detach the expiring one. ACM auto-renewal handles the certificate itself; the agent handles updating the listener so downtime is zero.

How do I avoid runaway API calls hitting AWS rate limits?

AWS ELB API limits vary by action — DescribeLoadBalancers allows 20 calls per second while mutating actions are lower. Keep polling intervals above 10 seconds for health checks and avoid parallel workflows that call the same action on the same resource simultaneously. Actionist's workflow scheduler lets you stagger runs to stay well within limits.