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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 6.6 out of 10
Score
6.6 out of 10

Reviews

4 Reviews

Testing new grounds with elastic load balancing

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At the moment we are looking at using the elastic load balancer provided by Amazon web services in a trial fashion. Our company has been migrating more and more of our in-house developed applications from on-site platforms to the AWS web platform. Part of this involves routing traffic across the newly deployed microservices and we are looking into using the elastic load balancer to help with this. So far it seems promising although our scale is admittedly low. We have not yet decided to migrate everything over to elb from our previous setup however results are promising as with anything else on the AWS suite the more we use it the more we like it. As far as business problems being addressed it's simply a matter of the security of being the host of the cloud versus having to maintain everything on site and as such the more options we use provided by Amazon web services the less we have to do ourselves.

Pros

  • Most obviously it works great for routing traffic between components hosted on Amazon web services
  • The ability to dynamically spin up connections is fantastic.
  • In general the ease of use and configuration is a selling point.

Cons

  • So far our experience has been limited with the ability for elb to handle transactions when only part of the platform is on Amazon web services.

Likelihood to Recommend

It really is a straight-up situation. From my current experience if you have two or more services hosted on Amazon web services that need transactions between each other with a variable flow of traffic then elb is a fantastic method for routing that traffic and making sure that no one back and component gets overloaded with requests while other existing components are just standing there idle waiting for some traffic. As noted earlier in my review we are still doing a trial run with the service as not all of our components are hosted on AWS yet and we aren't having as great luck with transactions between hosted and non-hosted but that could also simply be a learning curve on our part.

VU
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
1 year of experience

Excellent way to manage network load if you already use the AWS suite of applications

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Amazon Elastic Load Balancing for our digital learning platform, as part of our suite of AWS products, in order to keep abreast of the stress on our various network targets and make sure the loads between them remain balanced. We also use it to troubleshoot slowdowns or bottlenecks in the network by running the diagnostics that Amazon Elastic Load Balancing provides.

Pros

  • I like being able to check the status of the load on any of our targets, in real time
  • It is helpful to be able to run diagnostics when we have slowdowns in the network
  • Amazon Elastic Load Balancing integrates well with the other AWS products we are using

Cons

  • Occasionally we have a huge number of users using our network at once, and Amazon ELB isn't quite fast enough to scale effectively when that occurs. But this doesn't happen very often as our usage is usually quite stable
  • If we want to add another application to our learning suite, we would have to add another load balancer, which would incur additional cost
  • The setup was not easy and could really only be handled by one person on our team with the technical background to do so

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is great if you are already using a lot of other Amazon Web Services applications. It is built to integrate well with those, so your implementation will go a lot smoother. If you're already using other cloud computing services from different companies, you will have a much slower and more difficult time with integrating Amazon Elastic Load Balancing into your suite of applications.

VU
Verified User
Professional in Product Management (501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
2 years of experience

AWS ELB is a cost-effective solution for load balancing that integrates well with other AWS services

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the Amazon Elastic Load Balancing as a single entry point for end-clients or end-users of the EC2 instances to distribute incoming traffic across all machines available in the different availability zones to receive requests. We use it across all applications we deploy to the different environments. It fits well with the security groups and auto-scaling settings.

Pros

  • Fair price for a all-featured load balancing solution
  • High availability and elasticity. It is secured by Amazon.
  • Integrates well with Amazon WAF

Cons

  • There are not a lot of cons but we can mention the need to always check the quotas for the ELB

Likelihood to Recommend

We use Amazon Elastic Load Balancers to serve mobile applications and websites. It works really well. We have not had any problems until now. Last year we integrated the AWS ELB with the EC2 Auto Scaling and now we have a fully working elastic solution. We increase/decrease EC2s instances based on traffic over our load balancers.

VU
Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology (11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
5 years of experience

The right balance to serve high traffic websites

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We decided to use Amazon Elastic Load Balancing in conjunction with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to host our websites. We have websites that have peak traffic on some periods of the year, so we needed an elastic infrastructure that helps us to serve our websites with no downtimes and good performance. And that's what we get using this platform. So, we now have more reliable websites.

Pros

  • Good price for a complete load balancing solution
  • Very useful rules editor on listener
  • Working in conjuction with AWS WAF, is a good option to protect your applications

Cons

  • Unsing certificates from Amazon Certficate Manager don't work well
  • On high traffic websites can be pricey
  • HTTP/2 implementation creates problems from time to time on Apple devices / Safari

Likelihood to Recommend

We use AWS Elastic Load Balancers to serve websites. And for this purpose, works extremely well. In the past we used physical load balancers and that was very costly, and not to mention hard to work with on the server content replication side. Now, with AWS Elastic Load Balancers and EC2 Auto Scaling, we have a complete elastic solution, that works as it's supposed to be.

VU
Verified User
Project Manager in Engineering (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
4 years of experience