Top 10 AWS Elastic Load Balancing Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to AWS Elastic Load Balancing Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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Cloudflare Application Security and Performance
By Cloudflare, Inc.
4.5/5
(601)
Product Description
Cloudflare Application Security and Performance solutions provide performance, reliability, and security for all of your web applications and APIs, wherever they are hosted and wherever your users are.
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Reviewers say compared to AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Cloudflare Application Security and Performance is:
More usable
Easier to admin
Easier to set up
Categories in common with AWS Elastic Load Balancing:
Load Balancing

Azure Application Gateway
By Microsoft
4.4/5
(160)
Product Description
Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Unlike traditional load balancers that operate at the transport layer (Layer 4), Application Gateway operates at the application layer (Layer 7), allowing it to make routing decisions based on attributes such as URL paths and host headers. This capability provides more control over how traffic is distributed to your applications, enhancing both performance and security. Key Features and Functionality: - Layer 7 Load Balancing: Routes traffic based on HTTP request attributes, enabling more precise control over traffic distribution. - Web Application Firewall (WAF): Protects applications from common web vulnerabilities like SQL injection and cross-site scripting by monitoring and filtering HTTP requests. - SSL/TLS Termination: Offloads SSL/TLS processing to the gateway, reducing the encryption and decryption overhead on backend servers. - Autoscaling: Automatically adjusts the number of gateway instances based on traffic load, ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency. - Zone Redundancy: Distributes instances across multiple availability zones, enhancing resilience and availability. - URL Path-Based Routing: Directs requests to backend pools based on URL paths, allowing for efficient resource utilization. - Host Header-Based Routing: Routes traffic to different backend pools based on the host header, facilitating multi-site hosting. - Integration with Azure Services: Seamlessly integrates with Azure Traffic Manager for global load balancing and Azure Monitor for centralized monitoring and alerting. Primary Value and User Solutions: Azure Application Gateway provides a scalable and highly available solution for managing web application traffic. By operating at the application layer, it offers intelligent routing capabilities that enhance application performance and reliability. The integrated Web Application Firewall ensures robust security against common web threats, while features like SSL/TLS termination and autoscaling optimize resource utilization and reduce operational overhead. This comprehensive set of features addresses the needs of organizations seeking to build secure, scalable, and efficient web front ends in Azure.
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Reviewers say compared to AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Application Gateway is:
Slower to reach roi
Easier to admin
More usable
Categories in common with AWS Elastic Load Balancing:
Load Balancing

F5 NGINX
By F5
4.6/5
(107)
Product Description
free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy
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Reviewers say compared to AWS Elastic Load Balancing, F5 NGINX is:
Slower to reach roi
Better at meeting requirements
Easier to do business with
Categories in common with AWS Elastic Load Balancing:
Load Balancing

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Google Cloud Load Balancing
By Google
4.4/5
(27)
Product Description
Cloud Load Balancing allows users to scale their applications on Google Compute Engine from zero to full-throttle.
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Reviewers say compared to AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Google Cloud Load Balancing is:
Better at support
Categories in common with AWS Elastic Load Balancing:
Load Balancing

Azure Traffic Manager
By Microsoft
4.4/5
(18)
Product Description
Azure Traffic Manager is a cloud-based load balancing service that allows you to control the distribution of user traffic for service endpoints in different datacenters.
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Reviewers say compared to AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Traffic Manager is:
Easier to admin
Better at support
More usable
Categories in common with AWS Elastic Load Balancing:
Load Balancing

HAProxy
By HAProxy
4.7/5
(900)
Product Description
HAProxy is an open-source software load balancer and reverse proxy for TCP, QUIC, and HTTP-based applications. It provides high availability, load balancing, and best-in-class SSL processing. HAProxy One is an application delivery and security platform that combines the HAProxy core with enterprise-grade security layers, management and orchestration, cloud-native integration, and more. Platform components: HAProxy Enterprise: a flexible data plane layer for TCP, UDP, QUIC, and HTTP-based applications that provides high-performance load balancing, high availability, an API/AI gateway, container networking, SSL processing, DDoS protection, bot detection and mitigation, global rate limiting, and a web application firewall (WAF). HAProxy Fusion: a scalable control plane that provides full-lifecycle management, observability, and automation of multi-cluster, multi-cloud, and multi-team HAProxy Enterprise deployments, with infrastructure integration for AWS, Kubernetes, Consul, and Prometheus. HAProxy Edge: a globally distributed application delivery network that provides fully managed application delivery and security services, a secure partition between external traffic and origin networks, and threat intelligence enhanced by machine learning that powers the security layers in HAProxy Fusion and HAProxy Enterprise. Learn more at HAProxy.com.
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Reviewers say compared to AWS Elastic Load Balancing, HAProxy is:
Better at support
More usable
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with AWS Elastic Load Balancing:
Load Balancing

NetScaler
By Cloud Software Group
4.4/5
(85)
Product Description
NetScaler is an application delivery and security platform for large enterprises that need high-performance application delivery, integrated security, and end-to-end observability. Because NetScaler abstracts the complexities of networking configuration and works the same in both on-premises and cloud environments, infrastructure and operations teams can move faster to deliver new products and services.
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Reviewers say compared to AWS Elastic Load Balancing, NetScaler is:
Slower to reach roi
More expensive
Easier to admin
Categories in common with AWS Elastic Load Balancing:
Load Balancing

Hostwinds
By Hostwinds
4.9/5
(438)
Product Description
Hostwinds offers website hosting for individuals and businesses of all sizes, with 24/7/365 support and nightly backups.
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Reviewers say compared to AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Hostwinds is:
Slower to reach roi
Easier to admin
More usable
Categories in common with AWS Elastic Load Balancing:
Load Balancing

Akamai Cloud Computing
By Akamai Technologies
4.6/5
(406)
Product Description
The Developer Cloud Simplified
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Reviewers say compared to AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Akamai Cloud Computing is:
More usable
Better at support
Easier to admin
Categories in common with AWS Elastic Load Balancing:
Load Balancing