title: Does it make sense to have an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer with just one EC2 instance?
body: <p>my question is simple. Does it make sense to have an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) with just one EC2 instance?</p>
  <p>If I understood right, ELB will switch traffic between EC2 instances. However, I have just one EC2 instance. So, does it make sense?</p>
  <p>On the other hand, I´m using Route 53 to route my domain requests <code>example.com</code>, and <code>www.example.com</code> to my ELB, and I don´t see how to redirect directly to my EC2 instance. So, do I need an ELB for routing purposes?</p>