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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:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
8.1
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing enhances service availability and performance for high-traffic sites, with negligible costs and ROI improvements.
Sentiment score
5.7
Loadbalancer.org improves network reliability, uptime, and security, offering varying cost impacts and enhancing business growth, especially in VoIP.
Elastic Load Balancing is a part of a total solution package.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.2
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing support is largely effective and helpful but would benefit from quicker initial response times.
No sentiment score available
The support team has architects available.
The technical support is very responsive due to the prime-level support package.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing efficiently scales and manages traffic, offering reliable automatic scaling and multi-AZ deployment for varied demands.
No sentiment score available
Managing traffic load is efficient as Auto Scaling Group can easily be connected with ALB based on the number of requests.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is stable and reliable, with high ratings, occasional glitches, and benefits from Auto Scaling for uptime.
No sentiment score available
 

Room For Improvement

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing needs better integration, quicker support, improved security, streamlined processes, and enhanced monitoring for optimized user experience.
The ability to directly block specific IP addresses without additional service integration would be beneficial.
 

Setup Cost

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing offers competitive pay-as-you-go pricing, with monthly costs between $18 to $30 and free tiers available.
Pricing is okay, and Amazon has plans to reduce prices further.
Using ALB incurs a cost as opposed to the free open-source solutions like NGINX or HAProxy.
 

Valuable Features

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing provides scalable, secure traffic management and integration with AWS services, featuring auto-scaling and high performance.
Deploy our solution in multiple availability zones, it ensures that the system is always available and does not go down.
It is the de facto standard for AWS workloads and supports the AWS ecosystem seamlessly.
 

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 January 2025, in the Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) category, the mindshare of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is 1.4%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Loadbalancer.org is 3.3%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
 

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.
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.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
57%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
4%
Government
3%
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Government
10%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

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?
There aren't any major improvements needed; however, the latency compared to the network load balancer could be improved. Network load balancers are very fast in terms of latency, and improvements ...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Elastic Load Balancing?
I am currently working with AWS services including S3, CloudFront, EC2, Elastic Load Balancer, RDS databases, SNS, SQS, Lambda, and API Gateway. We use a round robin pattern to distribute the traff...
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

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Vodafone, NASA, Mercedes, NBC, Siemens, AT&T, Barclays, Zurich, Penn State University, Fiserv, Canon, Toyota, University of Cambridge, US Army, US Navy, Ocean Spray, ASOS, Pfizer, BBC, Bacardi, Monsoon, River Island, U.S Air Force, King's College London, NHS, Ricoh, Philips, Santander, TATA Communications, Ericcson, Ross Video, Evertz, TalkTalk TV, Giacom, Rapid Host.
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