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."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."
"The solution is very well integrated into Amazon's services."
"It is straightforward to deploy."
"The solution offers good load balancing."
"It is a very scalable solution in which you can add more servers instantly."
"Amazon Elastic Load Balancing transfers the data securely from servers to users and splits the traffic based on peak times."
"It has very good features. It is very configurable. Security with TLS, et cetera is also very easy."
"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 MAS integration for HDX Insight has provided teams with significant visibility into network performance of the user's connection."
"The program is easy to install and to set up."
"It is a complete solution for those looking for an all-in-one."
"Content Redirection and SSO integration with Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop. The GUI was wonderful."
"What I like most about Citrix NetScaler is its stability, and I didn't see a lot of issues with it."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is its load balancing."
"My customers have told me that the performance of this solution is good."
"The machines created by Amazon Elastic Load Balancing have different IP addresses, which we are not able to whitelist or predict."
"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."
"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."
"We faced some issues with the health check."
"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."
"The solution needs to guarantee stability because multiple loads behind a load balancer can cause service unavailability."
"The product's stability is an area with a slight shortcoming, which can be improved."
"There are certain features that are very useful and Citrix makes you pay a bit more for them."
"I would like to see support for scripting, like "iRule", which gives you the option to implement any configuration which is not available out of the box."
"In every release - and it doesn't matter if it's a minor release or a major release - they keep moving things around and they keep changing the mechanism. So certain things can work in one version one way, and everything works really well, then when you upgrade it to the next version, it breaks everything because they have a new way of doing it."
"Does not include security. A web application firewall would be a nice addition."
"The solution should be able to scale more effectively than it does."
"The WAF component needs to be simplified so that it is easier to use."
"Development team's response time could be better."
"We face challenges with the solution's firmware upgrades frequently."
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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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