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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing vs Loadbalancer.org comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
9th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Loadbalancer.org
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
12th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) category, the mindshare of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is 1.5%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Loadbalancer.org is 3.5%, up from 3.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
 

Featured Reviews

Mohd Farhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Manage complex traffic routing with ease and ensure system availability
The ELB would benefit from allowing deployment in a single availability zone for test servers to avoid unnecessary costs. Additionally, the ability to directly block specific IP addresses without additional service integration would be beneficial. Furthermore, sometimes ALB has a delay in recognizing the need to scale the system based on CloudWatch metrics, which could use improvement.
Roger Seelaender - PeerSpot reviewer
Great WAF - low-maintenance solution that performs as advertised
The solution can be improved with the development of a SIP engine because it is difficult to manage SBCs. All SBCs are really tough to write rules for. If we could put this in front of an SBC to have the right rules to possibly block the traffic, that would be very helpful. The solution can also improve the relationship between Loadbalancer.org and Metaswitch, or now, Microsoft because Metaswitch was purchased by Microsoft. They both position themselves as certified but don't always talk to each other. I wish there would be closer integration between the solution and the vendors when either release new upgrades to their product line. Often we find issues on either end post upgrades.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Security and monitoring for high-performance applications are some of the top features."
"Overall, I would rate the ELB solution ten out of ten."
"Amazon Elastic Load Balancing has improved our application availability by routing client requests only to healthy EC2 instances."
"It is a very scalable solution in which you can add more servers instantly."
"I appreciate the checks that Elastic Load Balancer performs with the instances to ensure they are running properly."
"Amazon Elastic Load Balancing transfers the data securely from servers to users and splits the traffic based on peak times."
"The network load balancer is really fast."
"The tool integrates well with Amazon native services. Its valuable feature is integrations."
"The user interface precludes need to be well versed with Linux IPVS command line. This make it easy for junior team members to participate in managing load balancing needs."
"The most valuable features of Loadbalancer.org are related to its load balancing capabilities."
"The connection that this solution helps our servers maintain has been most useful."
"The support we have received from Loadbalancer.org has been good."
"Loadbalancer is easy to use. It performs well, with low latency."
"Most important for us that it makes sure that the load is distributed and that we always have access to the end servers."
"Loadbalancer.org is less complex than Citrix."
"It's pretty much a Swiss Army knife for managing all the load balancing techniques."
 

Cons

"We faced some issues with the health check."
"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's stability is an area with a slight shortcoming, which can be improved."
"The ELB would benefit from allowing deployment in a single availability zone for test servers to avoid unnecessary costs."
"They should improve the solution's pricing."
"I do not have any notes for improvements."
"The ELB would benefit from allowing deployment in a single availability zone for test servers to avoid unnecessary costs."
"Improvement is needed in the integration with Terraform, especially in writing scripts for creating load balancers and target groups."
"They're mostly designed to balance a particular type of traffic. I wanted to load balance DNS, and they just don't do it the way that we wanted to. So they're not used as DNS load balancers."
"The interface from Loadbalancer.org should be improved."
"Compared to the physical products, the solution's throughput is a little less."
"The configuration is somewhat complicated. Someone who does not know the solution may find this challenging."
"I would like it if Loadbalancer had the ability to make rules for specific shared bots."
"The configuration is somewhat complicated. Someone who does not know the solution may find this challenging."
"You can run into an issue when one engineer passes the case over to another engineer after their shift and they don't know what the first engineer worked on up to that point."
"I'd like to see scalability improved; it can be costly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I have no issues with the tool's pricing."
"The solution's pricing is $30 per month."
"The solution is expensive."
"The product is not cheap."
"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 cost for using the application load balancer is approximately $18 to $21 per month."
"There is a yearly license."
"The solution's pricing is low and I rate it a nine out of ten."
"It was easy to upgrade the license for unlimited clusters and servers. Pricing is fair."
"Loadbalancer.org is based on open-source products, but it requires money for support and other activities."
"I’m not entirely sure about the rating since I'm not very technical. I haven't thoroughly compared the ratings. So, if you're asking for my impression so far, I would rate it around five out of 10."
"It's worth the cost. It's not cheap, but it's a good solution. If you're looking for a good solution, this is a good solution. Is it cheap? No. Is it worth the money? Yes, I think it is."
"I love that they do not price on some arbitrary throughput rating where you are guessing at what the load balancer is going to handle."
"I think it’s very affordable."
"It filled a requirement for our project, and it did so at lesser cost than their competitors.​"
"For now, it's stable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
49%
Computer Software Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
4%
Financial Services Firm
4%
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Government
8%
University
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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?
Sometimes the target group takes too much time to configure or to be seen on the internet, especially when configuring through ISV tools.
What is your primary use case for Amazon Elastic Load Balancing?
Elastic Load Balancer is used to maintain requests and distribute traffic on target groups. The target could be any type of instances, IPs, or Lambda functions. Most of the time, the target group i...
Do you recommend Loadbalancer.org?
Since Loadbalancer.org is an open-source solution, I would recommend this solution for smaller businesses that don’t have major scaling requirements and don’t have the budget for a commercial solut...
What do you like most about Loadbalancer.org?
Existing customers are trying to migrate from the physical F5 load balancer to the AVI load balancer because it is scalable and easily managed.
 

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Sample Customers

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