# Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing Reviews **Vendor:** Oracle **Category:** [Load Balancing Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/load-balancing) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 14 ## About Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing Increase application availability and performance with highly-available and provisioned bandwidth load balancing. ## Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing Reviews ### 1. The simplest to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Leonardo R. | Área Central, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** Extremely easy to set up, works perfectly and practically has no latency **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** The learning curve was a bit slow to discover all the features. **What problems is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have several instances without internet access by default, and the load balancer provides this access. We also have distributed applications where we use the load balancer to unify access. ### 2. Distributes network traffic to a list of healthy backend servers based on the health check policies **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raviteja R. | System Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** Oracle load balancer is associated with a listener and this listener determines which incoming traffic it can accepts and the backend set virtual or on prem servers linked with security list and route tables to balance the traffic flow with reverse proxy mechanism **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** In my opinion the custom based application usage of database can be user friendly and more accessible and improve or update when it comes to overall monitoring dashboard views **What problems is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing solving and how is that benefiting you?** This has an additional SSL off loading feature has linked with load balancer so that adding public SSL certificates to make sure the security is well built and you can enable the server side cookie driven session persistence for your HTTP load balancer as well ### 3. Best built in load balancing for cloud services to create a high availability of applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kilari S. | DevOps Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** As every has the knowledge of the load balancer now a days that it mainly automates the traffic flow from different point of network sources in a virtual world It mainly create scalable microservices applications deployments within a less latency with proper collaboration of backend API's **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** So far there was no drawback what I observed in my IT career but one thing is sure that load Balancing requires a huge setup that a person should has great profession past IT experience in networking or in cloud services **What problems is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing solving and how is that benefiting you?** In real time could applications this helps us to check the log level status of the any target machines which are connected interconnected with backend pools like web applications or server less applications Mainly it helps the lay man to diagnosis when there is an heavy load ### 4. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing - The inteliigent routing and load balancing service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** It is a service that helps us distribute incoming network traffic across multiple resources, such as virtual machines. It ensures high availability and fault tolerance by intelligently routing requests. Load balancing optimizes resource utilization and improves application performance. It supports both public and private load balancing, as well as SSL/TLS termination. We can easily configure and manage load balancers using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console or APIs. **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** Here are a few potential shortcomings to consider. First, the cost associated with load balancing services may be very high based on traffic volume and the number of load balancers deployed. Second, there may be a learning curve for administrators new to configuring and managing load balancers in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environment. Lastly, load balancers are subject to potential failures; therefore, any issues with load balancers could impact the availability of the applications. **What problems is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing solves the problem of distributing incoming network traffic to our cloud applications evenly across multiple resources, ensuring high availability and improved application performance. It eliminates single points of failure by intelligently routing requests, thereby enhancing fault tolerance. The service optimizes resource utilization and scalability of our application pods, allowing us to handle increasing traffic demands effectively. Load Balancing streamlines the deployment process and reduces administrative overhead by providing easy configuration and management options. ### 5. OCI load balancer is one stop solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suyash J. | Application Development Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** Best thing about OCI LB, you will get multiple types of load balancer like network load balancer or plain vanilla load balancer. Also the integration with kubernetes load balancer and implicitly creation of public IPs **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** More policies and dynamic group required to manage resources to use OCI Loadbalancer **What problems is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing solving and how is that benefiting you?** Onboarding application on OCI infrastructure and providing access with the help of OCI Loadbalancer ### 6. Best solution to distribute Traffic for High-Performance Applications **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Siddhant R. | Senior Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** Traffic management with the help of setting traffic management policies is the most helpful feature of this tool; I like its integration with Other Oracle Services. **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** It has nothing much to dislike, but I would like to hight a few things, like its complex configuration and limited monitoring and analytics compared to dedicated load-balancing solutions or third-party tools. **What problems is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing solving and how is that benefiting you?** Distributing the incoming traffic helps ensure high availability, performance, and flexibility for our applications. It helps in Virtual Machines and Autonomous Database , and handles all the workload at the peak time when the user load is above the threshold. ### 7. OCI load balancing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load balancers can be created with minimal effort through any of the IAC services like terraform etc. It also supports routing through path or query through ALB **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** The console is not that pleasing as compared to any other cloud provider like AWS, still some upgrades to the console is required also the cost of load balancer feels a bit higher on pricing **What problems is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle cloud Load balancing supports lots of protocols and able to balance the requests between multiple backend servers and the time of creation is quite less. ### 8. Oracle cloud is more secure cloud service provider **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vinod Kumar S. | Technical Support Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** OCI Load Balancing provides a highly available and scalable solution for distributing traffic across multiple backend servers, ensuring better application performance and reliability. **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** OCI's advanced features and settings a bit complex, especially if they are new to cloud load balancing concepts or the Oracle Cloud ecosystem. **What problems is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing solves several critical problems related to application performance, high availability, and scalability. ### 9. Oracle Cloud Load Balancing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Heather B. | Supply Chain Account Specialist/Large Account Manager, Manufacturing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** Helps to simplify what can be an overwhelming freight shipping experience, especially for large vendor accounts **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** The flow of the page is sometimes less than user friendly but there is adequate "help" as needed **What problems is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prevents errors with labelling of units, cases, pallets shipped to large warehouse vendors ### 10. Advanced and Robust LB **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** The Robust,Stable and High Performance features **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** Lack of algorithms and custom algorithms to setups user based LB algorithms **What problems is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast and Stable Load distribution during peak time with less sticky connections ### 11. ON CLOUD ORACLE **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anusha S. | Senior Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** It is preferred because of its comprehensive storage options, adjustable IP address, high-speed transfer system within a secured company network. Easy management, Always on service. **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** Mainly integration with other software is complicated. It should be able to operate on different OS platforms. Graphical representation should be included. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing:** It's recommended, but it's easy to use for the new users when oracle cloud comes up with more tutorials on the usage. It is good for larger organizations, as it will be costlier for smaller organization. It is most preferred for those who are already running oracle on their own hardware. **What problems is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving issues related to System networking and security. Easy to access data at your fingertips whenever we need it. It's helpful in a wide range in backing up the data, primarily because of the storage options provided. ### 12. Extremely easy to configure, very useful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suneesh M. | Technical Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** I had no background in configuring load balancers, but I still could configure a load balancer on oracle cloud without much problem. Decent documentation is also provided. **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** Nothing much that I dislike. A drag drop kind of set up would be a lot more noon friendly. **What problems is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy scaling for my app. I could simply add more instances and configure load balancer to handle the load ### 13. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** Increase Availability Automatically route traffic across Availability Domains for highly-available and fault-tolerant applications Elastic Provision bandwidth for deterministic throughput at all times, offering resilience for sudden traffic bursts **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** A load balancer improves resource utilization, facilitates scaling, and helps ensure high availability or is supposed to Oracle has issues keeping up with this aspect at time with the amount of work we use on the system **What problems is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Oracle load balancer for distributing from an endpoint to the multiple servers we have worldwide. This challenge is the greatest struggle we have in over coming these issues. ### 14. Best in the Biz **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing provides features commonly available in a dedicated hardware load balancer and Increases application availability and performance! **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing?** There is nothing negative about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing **What problems is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing offers a load balancer with your choice of a public or private IP address and provisioned bandwidth and availability which increases overall productivity throughout our whole facility! ## Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing Discussions - [What is a load balancer in OCI?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/oracle-cloud-infrastructure-load-balancing-what-is-a-load-balancer-in-oci) - [What is a load balancer in OCI?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-a-load-balancer-in-oci) - [Which of the following is a feature of the load balancing service?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-of-the-following-is-a-feature-of-the-load-balancing-service) - [What is load balancer in Oracle Cloud?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-load-balancer-in-oracle-cloud) - [What are the features of load balancing?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-features-of-load-balancing) - [View Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-cloud-infrastructure-load-balancing/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-15+07%3A43%3A43+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=b9fea848-04f6-449b-929b-e3ef85addece&secure%5Btoken%5D=229dbb93b4c82addc146959fae0861584253acd1101571859d89e763e05499f8&format=llm_user) ## Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing Features **Usability - Load Balancing** - User Interface Design - Setup Simplicity - Platform Integration - Container Support **Performance Optimization - Load Balancing** - Global Load Balancing - Dynamic Resource Allocation - Server Health Monitoring - Disaster Recovery **Security & Compliance - Load Balancing** - SSL/TLS Termination - Application Firewall Integration - DDoS Mitigation - Access Control - IP Whitelisting/Blacklisting ## Top Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing Alternatives - [HAProxy](https://www.g2.com/products/haproxy/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (892 reviews) - [F5 NGINX](https://www.g2.com/products/f5-nginx/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (106 reviews) - [Cloudflare Application Security and Performance](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudflare-application-security-and-performance/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (578 reviews)