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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing vs Microsoft Azure Application Gateway comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

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
Microsoft Azure Application...
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
3rd
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
46
Ranking in other categories
Web Application Firewall (WAF) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, 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 Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is 8.8%, down from 11.5% 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.
Sami - PeerSpot reviewer
High stability with built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure
The graphical interface needs improvement because it is not user friendly. There isn't a standardized process for blocking IPs. IPs need to be blocked individually, whether one or one hundred. A normal scenario would be to copy and paste multiple IPs at the same time but the solution does not offer this option. Updating takes a long time and is up to the WAF. In most cases, we prepare scripts to handle these updates.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is scaling."
"Security and monitoring for high-performance applications are some of the top features."
"The solution offers good load balancing."
"It has very good features. It is very configurable. Security with TLS, et cetera is also very easy."
"We use the solution for internet-exposed websites and internal load-balancing purposes."
"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."
"Amazon Elastic Load Balancing transfers the data securely from servers to users and splits the traffic based on peak times."
"The Elastic Load Balancer facilitates the distribution of incoming application traffic, which directs requests to various servers, preventing overload on a single instance."
"This is a SaaS product, so it is always up to date."
"The pricing is quite good."
"Using policies to link and manage these URL-based routing configurations is also valuable."
"Azure Application Gateway's most valuable feature is ease of use. The configuration is straightforward. It isn't difficult to adjust the size of your instances in the settings. You can do that with a few clicks, and the configuration file is the same way. You can also set rules and policies with minimal time and effort."
"The tool is easy to use and quite flexible. It has policy management features as well. The solution screens all traffic to our web applications before passing it to the application. We recently tested it on one of our poorly developed applications, and the upgrade gave us a 100% result based on our tests. It's very effective as a security measure, and people can detect threats even through the web application."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is traffic management."
"The solution was very easy to configure. It wasn't hard at all to adjust it to our needs."
"The solution has built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure."
 

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."
"Improvement is needed in the integration with Terraform, especially in writing scripts for creating load balancers and target groups."
"The product's stability is an area with a slight shortcoming, which can be improved."
"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."
"We faced some issues with the health check."
"The product should be made as an alternative to Amazon services. It would be easier for us if you got one service that is available everywhere."
"The product could be easier to use and implement."
"One of the challenges we faced was the solution does not support any other PCP protocols apart from HTTP and HTTPS."
"In the next release, the solution could improve the integration with Service Mesh and other Azure Security Services."
"The graphical interface needs improvement because it is not user friendly."
"The solution can sometimes feel a little cumbersome unless you're a professional infrastructure person."
"The solution doesn’t support wildcard-based and regular expression-based rules."
"Application Gateway’s limitation is that the private and the public endpoint cannot use the same port."
"It could be easier to change servicing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive."
"The solution's pricing is low and I rate it a nine out of ten."
"The product is not cheap."
"The solution's pricing is $30 per month."
"I have no issues with the tool's pricing."
"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."
"There is a yearly license."
"The solution is reasonably priced."
"The price of the solution can be reduced a bit."
"There is a need to pay a fixed price per month to use the product. There are no additional payments to be made to Microsoft apart from the charges paid towards the monthly licensing costs attached to the solution."
"The product is expensive. I rate the pricing a seven out of ten."
"The product is not expensive."
"The solution is paid monthly. The solution is highly expensive."
"It is not expensive."
"The tool's pricing model is pay-as-you-go."
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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
16%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

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?
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.
What's the difference between Azure Front Door and Application Gateway?
We found Azure Front Door to be easily scaled and very stable. The implementation is very fast and Microsoft provides excellent support. Azure Front Door can quickly detect abnormalities before the...
How does AWS WAF compare to Microsoft Azure Application Gateway?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Amazon’s Web Service Web Application Firewall or Microsoft Azure Application Gateway web application firewall software was the better fit ...
What do you like most about Microsoft Azure Application Gateway?
Application Gateway automatically redirects unwanted users and takes care of the security aspect. It also handles the performance side of things, which is why we use it.
 

Also Known As

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Azure Application Gateway, MS Azure Application Gateway
 

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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Lilly, AccuWeather, AIRFRANCE, Honeywell
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Elastic Load Balancing vs. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and other solutions. Updated: October 2024.
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