The right balance to serve high traffic websites
Rating: 9 out of 10
IncentivizedUse 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.
Vetted Review
4 years of experience