<p>This article describes the benefits of Ping An Cloud ELB.</p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>High Network Performance</strong></span></p> <p>ELB can define scaling polices according to business load to realize elastic scaling, which can increase the bandwidth utilization of network and servers, enhance network data processing capabilities, improve application availability and external service capabilities, and match the actual computing capability with the demand computing capability. Thus the service resources can realize automatic expansion and reduction, preventing waste or lack of resources.</p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Flexibility and Highly Availability</strong></span></p> <p>You can choose External or Internal ELB products and access control policies according to specific business scenarios, with the availability rate being &gt;=99.9%.</p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Cost Effective</strong></span></p> <p>ELB products are built in the form of cluster, with strong stability simple automated deployment process, which can save time and cost of network deployment. You do not need to purchase large hardware commodity equipment. You can choose Pay-As-You-Go or monthly payment method according to your actual business needs. Pay by bandwidth or pay by flow is adopted to cut costs for you.</p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Self-Service and Easy to Use</strong></span></p> <p>ELB provides self-service application. You do no need to apply with without administrator&rsquo;s intervention, which can save your O&amp;M costs and labor costs. ELB products support flexible configuration, provide a variety of advanced functions related to forwarding and conversation. It can accurately and automatically deliver configuration, realizing automatic, convenient creation, management, O&amp;M, and monitoring.</p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Security and Compliance</strong></span></p> <p>While an ELB instance independently provide External ELB service for Internet-oriented service, each ELB instance has an independent security isolation mechanism, independent access control mechanism, and independent intrusion prevention protection mechanism, such as DDoS defense.</p>