We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Load Balancing and HAProxy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a very scalable solution in which you can add more servers instantly."
"The solution offers good load balancing."
"The tool integrates well with Amazon native services. Its valuable feature is integrations."
"It has very good features. It is very configurable. Security with TLS, et cetera is also very easy."
"Security and monitoring for high-performance applications are some of the top features."
"The solution is very well integrated into Amazon's services."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is scaling."
"Amazon Elastic Load Balancing transfers the data securely from servers to users and splits the traffic based on peak times."
"I have found HAProxy very helpful in replicating production environment architecture in a development and testing environment."
"It solves a problem for me where I can build files, not based on the health of the check, but rather the speed of the check."
"It improves our scalability and responsiveness services to meet our demanding customer requirements."
"I am also able to make configuration changes during the day, in production, with no worries of problems and/or downtime occurring."
"We use it as a load balancer for our application servers."
"The solution is user-friendly and efficient."
"Load balancing is valuable, and we are also using the WAF feature."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that it works for my use case of application load balancing. I'm using it for PeerSense, and it's easy enough for PeerSense."
"The solution needs to guarantee stability because multiple loads behind a load balancer can cause service unavailability."
"They should improve the solution's pricing."
"The machines created by Amazon Elastic Load Balancing have different IP addresses, which we are not able to whitelist or predict."
"It would be good if we had a product that integrates well with third-party vendors. Some of our customers want a multi-cloud solution. They don't want to be tied up to or be in just one cloud."
"The product's stability is an area with a slight shortcoming, which can be improved."
"The reporting could be simplified so that the client sees a report of what they cached at the end of the month and the number of hits. It should have metrics above and beyond their Google analytics, etc. You can't do that with the solutions from AWS. You have to build sophisticated cloud trails, reports, dashboards, etc. The setup is significant, and it's hard to manage. You'll need to hire someone or pay a consultant on a regular basis to manage it, and it's not for the faint of heart."
"One issue that we faced with ALB was that leaf-level certificate validation was not happening. It is not that user-friendly in that aspect."
"The product should be made as an alternative to Amazon services. It would be easier for us if you got one service that is available everywhere."
"While troubleshooting, we are having some difficulties. There are no issues when it is running; it is stable and very good; however, if there is a troubleshooting issue or an incident occurs, we will have issues because this is open-source."
"The GUI should be more responsive and show the detailed output of logs."
"We've changed solutions as it doesn't fit with our current needs."
"Maybe HAProxy could be more modular."
"Pricing, monitoring, and reports can be improved."
"It needs proper HTTP/2 support."
"Documentation could be improved."
"I would like to see better search handling, and a user interface, with a complete functional graphical unit"
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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is ranked 11th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 10 reviews while HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews. Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is rated 8.4, while HAProxy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing writes "A tool that offers its users resiliency, high availability, and a great scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Useful for for small and quick load-balancing tasks". Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and NGINX Plus, whereas HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster, Citrix NetScaler and Radware Alteon. See our Amazon Elastic Load Balancing vs. HAProxy report.
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