Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Reviews

I use Amazon Elastic Load Balancing with EC2 instances to distribute traffic. I also incorporate Lambda for serverless technology and disaster recovery for backup across multiple availability zones. 

Additionally, AWS Backup is utilized for regular backups, and VPC is used for network configuration and traffic management.

The most valuable feature is the Lambda function due to its utility with serverless technology. It allows deployment of code without a server and facilitates connection between multiple services. This automatic functionality is highly beneficial for serverless technology. 

Additionally, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is excellent for traffic management and security.

Clients sometimes face issues with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, and it can take a long time to detect these issues. Although Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is effective for managing traffic and security bases, the delay in issue detection is an area for improvement.

I have been using Amazon Elastic Load Balancing for around one year.

I have not faced any stability issues with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing. I know how to use it effectively, which helps in avoiding problems.

The scalability of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is straightforward. It allows for easy scaling up or down of data.

The support team at Amazon is excellent. In my experience of generating more tickets with AWS support, they were very supportive and understanding, solving issues swiftly within one or two days.

Positive

I would recommend Amazon Elastic Load Balancing because it is very useful for companies that have a heavy server load. It is beneficial for managing traffic and ensuring security. 

I rate Amazon Elastic Load Balancing as eight out of ten. While it is excellent in its core functionalities, it sometimes takes a long time to detect client issues, which affects its perfect rating.

We use the solution in our application deployment by configuring the server with the customer's specific port.

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing transfers the data securely from servers to users and splits the traffic based on peak times.

I have been using Amazon Elastic Load Balancing for two years and eight months.

I rate the solution a nine out of ten for stability.

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is a scalable solution.

I rate the solution a nine out of ten for scalability.

The solution’s technical support is good.

The solution’s initial setup is easy.

It takes around five to ten minutes to deploy the solution.

The solution's pricing is $30 per month.

Once, the external network load balancer was not working because of the server-side change. The server had changed the certificate to a TLS version. We were unable to edit the security policy as a TLS version with the network load balancer. So, I created the classic load balancer instead of the network load balancer, and we're able to edit the security policy as the TLS version.

I would recommend Amazon Elastic Load Balancing to other users.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

We have a lot of customers who are currently not on Amazon; they are running on-premise data centers. When they ask us to migrate, we migrate their applications to Amazon. Load Balancing is often a component we use. We use HTTPS port 443, and we integrate the load balancer with the applications.

• Very easy to implement.
• Very well integrated into Amazon's services.

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. In that case, a third-party solution that could integrate with the cloud as well as with on-premise would be great.

Reporting would be a good feature as well.

I have been working with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing for about two years.

So far it has not given us any problem. It's always running, 24/7.

The workload that we have put on it has not required surplus scalability. It has been able to handle our customers' loads. We have not come across a situation where massive scalability has been required, so far, and we have implemented it for large companies.

We have not reached out to support so far, for Amazon Elastic Load Balancing. 

We do have their API Gateway and we have had to reach out to support twice. The API gateway nodes went down and they had to restart the nodes. I consider API Gateway as also having some kind of internal load balancing.

The setup is straightforward. It took a couple of hours, with one person involved.

I have not seen other products so that I can compare them and tell you the Amazon solution needs improvement. So far, its functionality has been enough for the projects we have done.

We have not used the network load balancer so far in Amazon. We have only used the application load balancer. As far as an application load balancer is concerned, it doesn't require any additional features.

Application Load Balancer is required for redirecting two or more instances. We have got two EKS instances running. So, we have to connect in a round-robin fashion based on when a request needs to be sent to one EKS and when it needs to be sent to another EKS. For this purpose, we use Application Load Balancer.

It has very good features. It is very configurable. Security with TLS, et cetera is also very easy. 

It is good performance-wise, and the logging mechanism is also very good because we get the VPC log whenever a request comes. So, we can easily find out where the request is coming from.

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. 

It is stable. I would rate it an eight out of ten in terms of stability.

We have more than 200 users, and we have 40 technical people.

I have never reached out to them.

Its initial setup is straightforward.

There is a yearly license.

I would recommend this solution. I would rate it an eight of ten.

I am using the solution to manage the front end of the application. I have a service where multiple clients log in for usage. The solution helps in load balancing by distributing the traffic to the application.

The solution's most valuable feature is the ease of use. It is more convenient to use compared to self-hosted load balancers.

They should improve the solution's pricing.

I have been using the solution for ten months.

It is a stable solution.

I rate the solution's scalability as a nine. It helps me manage around 100 end users of my application service.

The solution's support team is helpful.

Positive

The services offered by the solution and its competitors are almost similar. But Amazon is much more stable than them. Although, I don't have any quantifiable evidence.

The solution itself has simple functionality. It is straightforward to deploy and doesn't require maintenance.

The solution is expensive. I rate its pricing as a three.

I rate the solution as an eight.