# Configure an Application Load Balancer or Network Load Balancer from the console
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Use the following procedure to create and attach an Application Load Balancer or a Network Load Balancer as you create your Auto Scaling group. 

**To create and attach a new load balancer as you create a new Auto Scaling group**

1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/), and choose **Auto Scaling Groups** from the navigation pane.

1. Choose **Create Auto Scaling group**.

1. In steps 1 and 2, choose the options as desired and proceed to **Step 3: Configure advanced options**.

1. For **Load balancing**, choose **Attach to a new load balancer**.

   1. Under **Attach to a new load balancer**, for **Load balancer type**, choose whether to create an Application Load Balancer or Network Load Balancer. 

   1. For **Load balancer name**, enter a name for the load balancer, or keep the default name.

   1. For **Load balancer scheme**, choose whether to create a public internet-facing load balancer, or keep the default for an internal load balancer.

   1. For **Availability Zones and subnets**, select the public subnet for each Availability Zone in which you chose to launch your EC2 instances. (These prepopulate from step 2.).

   1. For **Listeners and routing**, update the port number for your listener (if necessary), and under **Default routing**, choose **Create a target group**. Alternatively, you can choose an existing target group from the drop-down list.

   1. If you chose **Create a target group** in the last step, for **New target group name**, enter a name for the target group, or keep the default name. 

   1. To add tags to your load balancer, choose **Add tag**, and provide a tag key and value for each tag.

1. (Optional) For **Health checks**, **Additional health check types**, select **Turn on Elastic Load Balancing health checks**.

1. (Optional) For **Health check grace period**, enter the amount of time, in seconds. This is how long Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling needs to wait before checking the health status of an instance after it enters the `InService` state. For more information, see [Set the health check grace period for an Auto Scaling group](health-check-grace-period.md). 

1. Proceed to create the Auto Scaling group. Your instances will be automatically registered to the load balancer after the Auto Scaling group has been created. 
**Note**  
After creating your Auto Scaling group, you can use the Elastic Load Balancing console to create additional listeners. This is useful if you need to create a listener with a secure protocol, such as HTTPS, or a UDP listener. You can add more listeners to existing load balancers, as long as you use distinct ports.