We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Load Balancing and HAProxy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution offers good load balancing."
"It is straightforward to deploy."
"The tool integrates well with Amazon native services. Its valuable feature is integrations."
"Security and monitoring for high-performance applications are some of the top features."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is scaling."
"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."
"The solution is very well integrated into Amazon's services."
"It is a very scalable solution in which you can add more servers instantly."
"The features I find valuable in this solution are session control which automatically disconnects users that forget to log off, and the ability to write rules to either allow or block certain file requests."
"HAProxy Enterprise Edition has been rock solid. We have essentially had no downtime caused by our load balancers in the last 10 months, because they’ve worked so well. Previously, our load balancers caused us multiple hours per year in downtime."
"We were able to use HAProxy for round robin with our databases, or for a centralized TCP connection in one host."
"It improves our scalability and responsiveness services to meet our demanding customer requirements."
"Software defined load balancing allows us to dynamically adjust and codify routing decisions. This speeds up development."
"It is a crucial tool in ensuring smooth service provision without any interruptions."
"Having the right load balancing solution – which is what HAProxy is – and protection in place gives organizations peace of mind."
"What I like best about the product is its simplicity and speed. When you need to set up a load balancer quickly, HAProxy offers options like sticky sessions and round-robin. It's also fast to configure, including adding SSL for security. While it may have fewer options than other solutions like F5, HAProxy gets the job done for basic load-balancing tasks."
"The product's stability is an area with a slight shortcoming, which can be improved."
"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."
"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 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."
"They should improve the solution's pricing."
"The machines created by Amazon Elastic Load Balancing have different IP addresses, which we are not able to whitelist or predict."
"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."
"Pricing, monitoring, and reports can be improved."
"We've changed solutions as it doesn't fit with our current needs."
"Improving the documentation with multiple examples and scenarios would be beneficial. Most users encounter similar situations, so having a variety of scenarios readily available on the tool's website would be helpful. For instance, if I were part of the HAProxy team, I'd create a webpage with different scenarios and provide files for each scenario. This way, users wouldn't have to start from scratch every time."
"There are three main areas to improve: 1) Make remote management more modern by adding API. 2) Propose a general HA solution for HAProxy (no I'm using keepalived for this). 3) Thread option should be a bit more stable."
"The basic clustering is not usable in our very specific setup. The clustering is mainly a configuration replication and is great in a case of active-passive usage. In the case of an active-active (or with more than two nodes) where the configuration is not fully identical, it cannot be used as-is."
"The reconfigurability in terms of the tooling could be improved and maybe an editor plugin can be added."
"HAProxy could improve by making the dashboards easier to use, and better reports and administration tickets."
"Sometimes it's challenging to get through the log, and you need a log to understand what is going on. It isn't easy to map the logging with the documentation, and every time I read the log, I have to pull out the documentation to understand what I'm reading."
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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is ranked 11th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 10 reviews while HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews. Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is rated 8.4, while HAProxy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing writes "A tool that offers its users resiliency, high availability, and a great scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Useful for for small and quick load-balancing tasks". Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and NGINX Plus, whereas HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster, Citrix NetScaler and Radware Alteon. See our Amazon Elastic Load Balancing vs. HAProxy report.
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