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 tool integrates well with Amazon native services. Its valuable feature is integrations."
"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 solution offers good load balancing."
"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."
"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."
"It is straightforward to deploy."
"It is scalable."
"Stability is number one."
"Tech support is super-quick to respond, and always on target with answers specific to the current issue."
"The VRRP redundancy is also a mission-critical feature that works seamlessly. I can bring down a server live with minimal downtime because of this."
"The most valuable thing for me is TCP/IP Layer 4 stuff you can do with HAProxy. You can go down to the protocol level and make decisions on something."
"We don't have a problem with the user interface. it's good."
"We were able to use HAProxy for round robin with our databases, or for a centralized TCP connection in one host."
"Advanced traffic rules, including stick tables and ACLs, which allow me to shape traffic while it's load balanced."
"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 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."
"We faced some issues with the health check."
"The product's stability is an area with a slight shortcoming, which can be improved."
"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."
"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."
"The solution needs to guarantee stability because multiple loads behind a load balancer can cause service unavailability."
"If nbproc = 2, you will have two processes of HAProxy running. However, the stats of HAProxy will not be aggregated, meaning you don't really know the collective status in a single point of view."
"They should introduce one feature that I know many people, including me, are waiting for: HAProxy should have provide hot-swipe for back-end servers. Also, they need a more detailed GUI for monitoring and configuration."
"Maybe HAProxy could be more modular."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in HAProxy's dynamic configuration."
"The product does not have any new technologies."
"HAProxy is very weak in the logging and monitoring part and requires improvement."
"It needs proper HTTP/2 support."
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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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