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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing vs Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
10th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Ivanti Virtual Web Applicat...
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
17th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
Web Application Firewall (WAF) (43rd)
 

Featured Reviews

Mridu Boruah - PeerSpot reviewer
A tool that offers its users resiliency, high availability, and a great scalability
It is a very scalable solution in which you can add more servers instantly. I rate the scalability of the product a nine out of ten. The solution can handle a lot of load, and you don't need to do anything since it will just scale up and down as and when the load increases or decreases, respectively. There are thousands of users of various applications, and whoever wants to use an application has to use a load balancer.
reviewer890211 - PeerSpot reviewer
Good feature set and is simple to deploy
In terms of what needs improvement, the price could be lowered. We've tried to deploy more of them but our purchasing department has said that they're way too expensive and they would prefer to use something else. We sort of stopped deploying them because of that. There are additional costs to the standard licensing. There are bandwidth prices. The feature set is quite good. We've been told to stop using them because of the price. If they can do something to address that I believe it would be better. On the latest version they've got a community edition, which is quite a good bandwidth, but in essence, it's to address the entry-level price. When you get to 10 gig bandwidth, it's way too expensive.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Amazon Elastic Load Balancing transfers the data securely from servers to users and splits the traffic based on peak times."
"We use the solution for internet-exposed websites and internal load-balancing purposes."
"It has very good features. It is very configurable. Security with TLS, et cetera is also very easy."
"The solution offers good load balancing."
"The Elastic Load Balancer facilitates the distribution of incoming application traffic, which directs requests to various servers, preventing overload on a single instance."
"It is a very scalable solution in which you can add more servers instantly."
"It is straightforward to deploy."
"Security and monitoring for high-performance applications are some of the top features."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is simple to deploy. The deployment took us ten minutes."
 

Cons

"The solution needs to guarantee stability because multiple loads behind a load balancer can cause service unavailability."
"The tool could enhance the internal load balancer with better health monitoring. The external load balancer needs more security parameters to protect it from the internet, as it currently lacks protection. It's okay for basic load balancing and those looking for basic functionality in an application load balancer. However, if someone is going to onboard a critical application, like in the banking sector, I wouldn't suggest Amazon Elastic Load Balancer because of security issues. There are no firewall restrictions."
"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."
"Improvement is needed in the integration with Terraform, especially in writing scripts for creating load balancers and target groups."
"We faced some issues with the health check."
"They should improve the solution's pricing."
"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."
"The machines created by Amazon Elastic Load Balancing have different IP addresses, which we are not able to whitelist or predict."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the price could be lowered. We've tried to deploy more of them but our purchasing department has said that they're way too expensive and they would prefer to use something else."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is not cheap."
"The solution is expensive."
"There is a yearly license."
"I have no issues with the tool's pricing."
"The solution's pricing is low and I rate it a nine out of ten."
"The licensing fees are based on the number of connections one uses. It is a free tool for a certain amount of connections, which runs into thousands, and after that, there is a certain amount to be paid to Amazon."
"The solution's pricing is $30 per month."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
60%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Government
4%
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Energy/Utilities Company
6%
Government
6%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon Elastic Load Balancing?
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing transfers the data securely from servers to users and splits the traffic based on peak times.
What needs improvement with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing?
The tool could enhance the internal load balancer with better health monitoring. The external load balancer needs more security parameters to protect it from the internet, as it currently lacks pro...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Elastic Load Balancing?
We use the solution for internet-exposed websites and internal load-balancing purposes.
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Also Known As

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Pulse vWAF, Pulse Virtual Traffic Manager
 

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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
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