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PROS

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing integrates seamlessly with Amazon services and is highly configurable, making it efficient for complex design executions.
Scalability is a standout feature, allowing the addition of servers instantly, tailored for high-performance applications.
Security, TLS, and secure data transfer from servers to users are key features, enhancing application safety.
Elastic Load Balancer offers excellent routing and load distribution, improving application availability through checks and rule prioritization.
Connection capabilities with services like EC2, ECS, API Gateway, and Lambda functions provide significant advantages, including the benefit of attaching a WAF.

CONS

There are issues with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing related to leaf-level certificate validation, leading to user inconvenience.
Many users find the pricing model of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing less favorable and suggest improvements.
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing has been noted to lack flexibility with third-party integrations and multi-cloud support.
There are reported deficiencies in stability and health monitoring, particularly for the external load balancer.
Concerns exist regarding latency compared to the network load balancer and long provisioning times.
 

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Pros review quotes

Spencer Malmad - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 1, 2022
The feature that I like the most is the scalability. The solutions I build often have many pieces, which are very complicated. If a client comes to me with a design, my developer has made this as a template or a cloud formation script. It's a design on paper, and I want it executed a certain way. I can do that quickly and repeatedly with AWS. That is a considerable advantage because I can take that template and do it five times in different zones. That is an excellent feature based on a template, et cetera.
Mohd Farhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 20, 2024
The best part about ALB is its ability to connect with different services including EC2, ECS, API Gateway, or Lambda functions, offering a lot of benefits like attaching a WAF.
Ankit Kondal - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 8, 2024
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing has improved our application availability by routing client requests only to healthy EC2 instances.
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TK
Dec 11, 2024
The network load balancer is really fast.
Rushabh Trivedi - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 25, 2024
I find it valuable that you can provide rule prioritization and set priorities for path-based routing.
Aditya Mehta - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 12, 2020
The solution is very well integrated into Amazon's services.
Aditya Mehta - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 3, 2022
The solution offers good load balancing.
Prasanth MG - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 2, 2023
The most valuable feature of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is scaling.
Mridu Boruah - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 11, 2023
It is a very scalable solution in which you can add more servers instantly.
Jay Sevak - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 3, 2024
The most valuable feature is the Lambda function due to its utility with serverless technology.
 

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Cons review quotes

Spencer Malmad - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 1, 2022
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.
Mohd Farhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 20, 2024
The ELB would benefit from allowing deployment in a single availability zone for test servers to avoid unnecessary costs.
Ankit Kondal - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 8, 2024
The routing policies and waiting policies could be improved for better performance.
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TK
Dec 11, 2024
They could improve provisioning speed.
Rushabh Trivedi - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 25, 2024
The latency compared to the network load balancer could be improved.
Aditya Mehta - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 12, 2020
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.
Aditya Mehta - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 3, 2022
The solution needs to guarantee stability because multiple loads behind a load balancer can cause service unavailability.
Prasanth MG - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 2, 2023
The machines created by Amazon Elastic Load Balancing have different IP addresses, which we are not able to whitelist or predict.
Mridu Boruah - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 11, 2023
The product's stability is an area with a slight shortcoming, which can be improved.
Jay Sevak - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 3, 2024
Clients sometimes face issues with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, and it can take a long time to detect these issues.