Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Room for Improvement
The product's stability is an area with a slight shortcoming, which can be improved.
We faced a problem once. The different machines created by Amazon Elastic Load Balancing have separate IP addresses. These machines, in turn, connect to our MongoDB Service. Since MongoDB has an IP address-based firewall in the middle, it will only allow IP addresses you have whitelisted.
So whenever the solution creates a new machine, we have to add the IP address to our MongoDB whitelist. Whenever it deletes and recreates, the old IP address becomes invalid. This causes our connections to break, and our customers don't get the data. The machines created by Amazon Elastic Load Balancing have different IP addresses, which we are not able to whitelist or predict.
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.
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The solution needs to guarantee stability because multiple loads behind a load balancer can cause service unavailability.
I am not sure if this service currently exists, but it would be beneficial to customers to offer a network load balancer from IoT devices.
View full review »We faced some issues with the health check. I had to check the EC2 instances and ELB. It worked properly after that. Auto Scaling must be improved.
View full review »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. In that case, a third-party solution that could integrate with the cloud as well as with on-premise would be great.
Reporting would be a good feature as well.
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Strategy Manager with 201-500 employees
They should improve the solution's pricing.
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ASHOK YADAV
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
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