We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Load Balancing and Citrix NetScaler 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 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."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is scaling."
"It is straightforward to deploy."
"It is a very scalable solution in which you can add more servers instantly."
"It has very good features. It is very configurable. Security with TLS, et cetera is also very easy."
"Amazon Elastic Load Balancing transfers the data securely from servers to users and splits the traffic based on peak times."
"Security and monitoring for high-performance applications are some of the top features."
"It is a stable solution. It crashed only once, four years ago...There is a return on investment using the solution."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"The solution is very stable."
"HTTP analysis and action. We have a lot of custom web applications that sometimes require custom header insertions. Some of these custom apps are external and, via the content switching, we can use one IP and leverage various back-end web app servers."
"The solution improves security performance."
"I found that the GUI was very easy to to navigate. If you were looking for something, it was fairly easy to find. There's a lot of third-party documentation and information available online as well."
"Compared to other solutions, Citrix ADC is much more robust in terms of the native integration to cloud platforms. It is far more robust from an operational point of view as well."
"It is the best product out there."
"The solution needs to guarantee stability because multiple loads behind a load balancer can cause service unavailability."
"We faced some issues with the health check."
"The machines created by Amazon Elastic Load Balancing have different IP addresses, which we are not able to whitelist or predict."
"The product's stability is an area with a slight shortcoming, which can be improved."
"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."
"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."
"They should improve the solution's pricing."
"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."
"Getting to use some of the advanced tools, even with the assistance of Citrix support, can be challenging."
"ADC from Citrix has added functionalities from other products and the usability is very difficult for someone who is used to a simpler user interface, it's a little bit of a mess to use."
"I think there is always room for improvement in this type of solutions. For example, I think the GUI should be easy to understand."
"There are some features which are missing."
"We face challenges with the solution's firmware upgrades frequently."
"Scripting and writing expressions need to be improved by putting logic behind the rules and improve policies involving some of the scripting part, which is a tedious task to do."
"The technical support could be improved. They do not respond or assist customers in a timely manner."
"The only thing customers told me that could be improved is that they would like to be able to purchase and receive the products in one box, rather than two boxes. This is something related to marketing, though."
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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is ranked 11th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 9 reviews while Citrix NetScaler is ranked 2nd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 85 reviews. Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is rated 8.4, while Citrix NetScaler is rated 8.4. 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 Citrix NetScaler writes "Optimizing application delivery and ensuring robust network performance with its excellent stability and comprehensive load-balancing capabilities". Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy and NGINX Plus, whereas Citrix NetScaler is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiADC, HAProxy and Radware Alteon. See our Amazon Elastic Load Balancing vs. Citrix NetScaler report.
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