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."
"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 has very good features. It is very configurable. Security with TLS, et cetera is also very easy."
"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 most valuable feature of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is scaling."
"The solution is very well integrated into Amazon's services."
"It is a very scalable solution in which you can add more servers instantly."
"Software defined load balancing allows us to dynamically adjust and codify routing decisions. This speeds up development."
"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."
"The anti-DDOS PacketShield filtering solution (embedded in the physical appliances) as well as the BGP route injection are great features and heavily used."
"The ease of use of the configuration, and great documentation, are the most valuable features for us."
"Having the right load balancing solution – which is what HAProxy is – and protection in place gives organizations peace of mind."
"It solves a problem for me where I can build files, not based on the health of the check, but rather the speed of the check."
"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."
"We were able to use HAProxy for round robin with our databases, or for a centralized TCP connection in one host."
"The solution needs to guarantee stability because multiple loads behind a load balancer can cause service unavailability."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in HAProxy's dynamic configuration."
"The GUI should be more responsive and show the detailed output of logs."
"The solution can be improved by controlling TCP behavior better and mandating to clients what the expected outcome must be in order to avoid receiving contestant timeout logs."
"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."
"I would like to evaluate load-balancing algorithms other than round robin and SSL offloading. Also, it would be helpful if I could logically divide the HAProxy load-balancing into multiple entities so that I would install one HA Proxy LB application which could be used for different Web servers for different applications. I am not sure if these features are available."
"It needs proper HTTP/2 support."
"HAProxy could do with some good combination integrations."
"The product does not have any new technologies."
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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is ranked 11th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 9 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 "Offers good integration capabilities but needs to improve the monitoring part". 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 Barracuda Web Application Firewall. See our Amazon Elastic Load Balancing vs. HAProxy report.
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