# What are the best load balancing platforms for SaaS companies distributing traffic across cloud infrastructure with minimal complexity?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Which load balancing platforms help SaaS teams distribute traffic across cloud infrastructure without a lot of complexity? A few from the<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/load-balancing"> </a><a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/load-balancing">load balancing</a> category:</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/cloudflare-application-security-and-performance/reviews"><strong>Cloudflare Application Security and Performance</strong></a>: reviewers call it set-and-forget, with easy DNS setup and traffic spread across a global edge.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/aws-elastic-load-balancing/reviews"><strong>AWS Elastic Load Balancing</strong></a>: hands-off elasticity with Auto Scaling for teams already on AWS, though setup needs AWS networking knowledge.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/akamai-cloud-computing/reviews"><strong>Akamai Cloud Computing</strong></a>: reviewers spin up and balance infrastructure quickly, with strong support.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/progress-kemp-loadmaster/reviews"><strong>Progress Kemp LoadMaster</strong></a>: reviewers call initial deployment very easy for standing up L4 and L7 balancing.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For SaaS teams, which kept cloud traffic distribution simple as you scaled? And where did complexity creep back in, routing rules, config, or cost?</p>

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- Posted at: 15 days ago
- Author title: Marketer
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## Comments
### Comment 1

Cloudflare&#39;s &quot;set-and-forget&quot; and AWS&#39;s &quot;hands-off elasticity&quot; are both real, but they&#39;re conditional in ways worth separating for a SaaS company specifically, since SaaS often comes with compliance needs, like data residency requirements across regions, that a generic web app doesn&#39;t have. Cloudflare&#39;s simplicity comes from outsourcing routing decisions to a third-party global edge you don&#39;t control; AWS&#39;s comes from staying entirely inside AWS&#39;s own networking assumptions. Either one&#39;s &quot;minimal complexity&quot; probably holds right up until a SaaS-specific requirement, like needing traffic to stay within a specific region for compliance reasons, falls outside what that platform assumes by default, and that&#39;s likely where the complexity this post is trying to avoid actually creeps back in for this particular buyer, more than through routing rules or cost.

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- Posted at: 12 days ago
- Author title: Tech Consultant





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