Add docs for AWS LoadBalancers: use kubectl describe

On AWS, we create ELBs for services with Type=LoadBalancer.

ELBs use hostnames, and the hostname is too long to fit in the output of
`kubectl get`.  So instead the user must do `kubectl describe service
<id>`.

Fix #13827
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Justin Santa Barbara
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In order to access your nginx landing page, you also have to make sure that traffic from external IPs is allowed. Do this by opening a [firewall to allow traffic on port 80](services-firewalls.md).
If you're running on AWS, Kubernetes creates an ELB for you. ELBs use host
names, not IPs, so you will have to do `kubectl describe svc my-nginx` and look
for the `LoadBalancer Ingress` host name. Traffic from external IPs is allowed
automatically.
## Killing the application
To kill the application and delete its containers and public IP address, do: