AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell
Command Reference

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Synopsis

Calls the Elastic Load Balancing CreateLoadBalancer API operation.

Syntax

New-ELBLoadBalancer
-LoadBalancerName <String>
-Listener <Listener[]>
-AvailabilityZone <String[]>
-Scheme <String>
-SecurityGroup <String[]>
-Subnet <String[]>
-Tag <Tag[]>
-Select <String>
-Force <SwitchParameter>
-ClientConfig <AmazonElasticLoadBalancingConfig>

Description

Creates a Classic Load Balancer. You can add listeners, security groups, subnets, and tags when you create your load balancer, or you can add them later using CreateLoadBalancerListeners, ApplySecurityGroupsToLoadBalancer, AttachLoadBalancerToSubnets, and AddTags. To describe your current load balancers, see DescribeLoadBalancers. When you are finished with a load balancer, you can delete it using DeleteLoadBalancer. You can create up to 20 load balancers per region per account. You can request an increase for the number of load balancers for your account. For more information, see Limits for Your Classic Load Balancer in the Classic Load Balancers Guide.

Parameters

-AvailabilityZone <String[]>
One or more Availability Zones from the same region as the load balancer.You must specify at least one Availability Zone.You can add more Availability Zones after you create the load balancer using EnableAvailabilityZonesForLoadBalancer. Starting with version 4 of the SDK this property will default to null. If no data for this property is returned from the service the property will also be null. This was changed to improve performance and allow the SDK and caller to distinguish between a property not set or a property being empty to clear out a value. To retain the previous SDK behavior set the AWSConfigs.InitializeCollections static property to true.
Required?False
Position?3
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAvailabilityZones
-ClientConfig <AmazonElasticLoadBalancingConfig>
Amazon.PowerShell.Cmdlets.ELB.AmazonElasticLoadBalancingClientCmdlet.ClientConfig
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Force <SwitchParameter>
This parameter overrides confirmation prompts to force the cmdlet to continue its operation. This parameter should always be used with caution.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Listener <Listener[]>
The listeners.For more information, see Listeners for Your Classic Load Balancer in the Classic Load Balancers Guide. Starting with version 4 of the SDK this property will default to null. If no data for this property is returned from the service the property will also be null. This was changed to improve performance and allow the SDK and caller to distinguish between a property not set or a property being empty to clear out a value. To retain the previous SDK behavior set the AWSConfigs.InitializeCollections static property to true.
Required?True
Position?2
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesListeners
-LoadBalancerName <String>
The name of the load balancer.This name must be unique within your set of load balancers for the region, must have a maximum of 32 characters, must contain only alphanumeric characters or hyphens, and cannot begin or end with a hyphen.
Required?True
Position?1
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-Scheme <String>
The type of a load balancer. Valid only for load balancers in a VPC.By default, Elastic Load Balancing creates an Internet-facing load balancer with a DNS name that resolves to public IP addresses. For more information about Internet-facing and Internal load balancers, see Load Balancer Scheme in the Elastic Load Balancing User Guide.Specify internal to create a load balancer with a DNS name that resolves to private IP addresses.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-SecurityGroup <String[]>
The IDs of the security groups to assign to the load balancer. Starting with version 4 of the SDK this property will default to null. If no data for this property is returned from the service the property will also be null. This was changed to improve performance and allow the SDK and caller to distinguish between a property not set or a property being empty to clear out a value. To retain the previous SDK behavior set the AWSConfigs.InitializeCollections static property to true.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesSecurityGroups
-Select <String>
Use the -Select parameter to control the cmdlet output. The default value is 'DNSName'. Specifying -Select '*' will result in the cmdlet returning the whole service response (Amazon.ElasticLoadBalancing.Model.CreateLoadBalancerResponse). Specifying the name of a property of type Amazon.ElasticLoadBalancing.Model.CreateLoadBalancerResponse will result in that property being returned. Specifying -Select '^ParameterName' will result in the cmdlet returning the selected cmdlet parameter value.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Subnet <String[]>
The IDs of the subnets in your VPC to attach to the load balancer. Specify one subnet per Availability Zone specified in AvailabilityZones. Starting with version 4 of the SDK this property will default to null. If no data for this property is returned from the service the property will also be null. This was changed to improve performance and allow the SDK and caller to distinguish between a property not set or a property being empty to clear out a value. To retain the previous SDK behavior set the AWSConfigs.InitializeCollections static property to true.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesSubnets
-Tag <Tag[]>
A list of tags to assign to the load balancer.For more information about tagging your load balancer, see Tag Your Classic Load Balancer in the Classic Load Balancers Guide. Starting with version 4 of the SDK this property will default to null. If no data for this property is returned from the service the property will also be null. This was changed to improve performance and allow the SDK and caller to distinguish between a property not set or a property being empty to clear out a value. To retain the previous SDK behavior set the AWSConfigs.InitializeCollections static property to true.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesTags

Common Credential and Region Parameters

-AccessKey <String>
The AWS access key for the user account. This can be a temporary access key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAK
-Credential <AWSCredentials>
An AWSCredentials object instance containing access and secret key information, and optionally a token for session-based credentials.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-EndpointUrl <String>
The endpoint to make the call against.Note: This parameter is primarily for internal AWS use and is not required/should not be specified for normal usage. The cmdlets normally determine which endpoint to call based on the region specified to the -Region parameter or set as default in the shell (via Set-DefaultAWSRegion). Only specify this parameter if you must direct the call to a specific custom endpoint.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-NetworkCredential <PSCredential>
Used with SAML-based authentication when ProfileName references a SAML role profile. Contains the network credentials to be supplied during authentication with the configured identity provider's endpoint. This parameter is not required if the user's default network identity can or should be used during authentication.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-ProfileLocation <String>
Used to specify the name and location of the ini-format credential file (shared with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs)If this optional parameter is omitted this cmdlet will search the encrypted credential file used by the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio first. If the profile is not found then the cmdlet will search in the ini-format credential file at the default location: (user's home directory)\.aws\credentials.If this parameter is specified then this cmdlet will only search the ini-format credential file at the location given.As the current folder can vary in a shell or during script execution it is advised that you use specify a fully qualified path instead of a relative path.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAWSProfilesLocation, ProfilesLocation
-ProfileName <String>
The user-defined name of an AWS credentials or SAML-based role profile containing credential information. The profile is expected to be found in the secure credential file shared with the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. You can also specify the name of a profile stored in the .ini-format credential file used with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesStoredCredentials, AWSProfileName
-Region <Object>
The system name of an AWS region or an AWSRegion instance. This governs the endpoint that will be used when calling service operations. Note that the AWS resources referenced in a call are usually region-specific.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesRegionToCall
-SecretKey <String>
The AWS secret key for the user account. This can be a temporary secret key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesSK, SecretAccessKey
-SessionToken <String>
The session token if the access and secret keys are temporary session-based credentials.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesST

Outputs

System.String or Amazon.ElasticLoadBalancing.Model.CreateLoadBalancerResponse
This cmdlet returns a System.String object. The service call response (type Amazon.ElasticLoadBalancing.Model.CreateLoadBalancerResponse) can be returned by specifying '-Select *'.

Examples

Example 1

$httpListener = New-Object Amazon.ElasticLoadBalancing.Model.Listener
$httpListener.Protocol = "http"
$httpListener.LoadBalancerPort = 80
$httpListener.InstanceProtocol = "http"
$httpListener.InstancePort = 80
New-ELBLoadBalancer -LoadBalancerName my-vpc-load-balancer -SecurityGroup sg-a61988c3 -Subnet subnet-15aaab61 -Listener $httpListener

my-vpc-load-balancer-1234567890.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com
This example creates a load balancer with an HTTP listener in a VPC.

Example 2

New-ELBLoadBalancer -LoadBalancerName my-classic-load-balancer -AvailabilityZone us-west-2a` -Listener $httpListener

my-classic-load-balancer-123456789.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com
This example creates a load balancer with an HTTP listener in EC2-Classic.

Example 3

$httpsListener = New-Object Amazon.ElasticLoadBalancing.Model.Listener
$httpsListener.Protocol = "https"
$httpsListener.LoadBalancerPort = 443
$httpsListener.InstanceProtocol = "http"
$httpsListener.InstancePort = 80 
$httpsListener.SSLCertificateId="arn:aws:iam::123456789012:server-certificate/my-server-cert"
New-ELBLoadBalancer -LoadBalancerName my-load-balancer -AvailabilityZone us-west-2a -Listener $httpsListener

my-load-balancer-123456789.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com
This example creates a load balancer with an HTTPS listener.
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Supported Version

AWS Tools for PowerShell: 2.x.y.z