We need to create a target group to complete this recipe. We can do this by following the Creating ELB target groups recipe of this chapter but with two EC2 instances that have Apache web server set up and a security group that allows HTTP, HTTPS, and SSH, but with the following exceptions:

• Enable HTTPS on the EC2 instances by following the Enabling HTTPS on an EC2 instance recipe.
• Select TCP instead of HTTP as the protocol for the target group and set 443 as the port.

The description tab of the target group should look as follows:

Make sure that our instances can be reached using the https:// prefix.