# What load balancing platforms work best for a SaaS company distributing traffic across cloud infrastructure without adding unnecessary complexity to the stack?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">What<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> platforms work best for a SaaS company distributing traffic across cloud infrastructure without adding unnecessary complexity to the stack? I've been looking into this specifically from a SaaS angle; the tradeoffs look different when you're on shared cloud infrastructure and every layer you add is another thing to maintain. Sharing what I found going through SaaS-focused reviews; curious whether others have landed on something different.</p><ul>
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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>: most common starting point for AWS-native SaaS teams; path-based routing, Auto Scaling integration, and graceful draining built in</li>
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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>: handles traffic distribution and security in one layer; not a pure load balancer but SaaS teams in the reviews found the consolidation worth it</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/traefik/reviews"><strong>Traefik</strong></a>: standout for containerized SaaS stacks; dynamic service discovery means new services come online without manual config changes</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/haproxy/reviews"><strong>HAProxy</strong></a>: shows up for teams that want fine-grained routing without cloud vendor lock-in; reviewers described it as infrastructure that you can deploy and forget about</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/fastly-content-delivery/reviews"><strong>Fastly Content Delivery</strong></a>: CDN-first but used by SaaS teams to offload origin load during spikes; near-instant cache invalidation was the practical differentiator</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">If your SaaS stack is already on one cloud provider, has the native load balancer been enough on its own, or has something else always ended up in front of it?</p>

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For a single-cloud SaaS setup, the native load balancer is usually enough on its own, and starting there is the least you have to maintain. What tends to end up in front of it isn&#39;t another load balancer, it&#39;s an edge layer like Cloudflare for security and to soak up spikes, and since that&#39;s traffic and protection in one layer it doesn&#39;t add a moving part the way a second load balancer would. The one time I&#39;d reach past native is a containerized stack, where Traefik&#39;s service discovery means new services get traffic with no config changes, which removes work rather than adding it. Most of the complexity tends to creep in from stacking overlapping tools, not from the load balancer choice itself.

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