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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing vs LoadBalancer Enterprise comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.1
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing boosts service availability and performance during peak traffic, enhancing value with low manpower requirements.
Sentiment score
5.1
LoadBalancer Enterprise enhanced reliability, reduced costs, improved productivity, and boosted customer satisfaction, crucial for business operations in VoIP.
Elastic Load Balancing is a part of a total solution package.
Manager Development at BNT SOFT INC
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing requires minimal personnel for handling, which contributes to organizational value either in terms of cost savings or efficiency.
Cloud engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
There are very lesser downtimes in terms of my overall data, including software deployment, development, and testing cycles.
Sr QA Automation Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
One of the reasons why we went for LoadBalancer Enterprise is because of losing revenue when services are not available.
Senior Team Lead Systems Administrator at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.2
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing support receives mixed reviews, with praise for prompt responses but concerns over occasional resolution delays.
Sentiment score
7.4
LoadBalancer Enterprise support is praised for 24/7 availability, expertise, quick resolutions, and being highly rated despite occasional coordination issues.
The support team has architects available.
Manager Development at BNT SOFT INC
The technical support is very responsive due to the prime-level support package.
AWS Cloud Solution Developer | DevOps | SpringBoot | Android/iOS at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
I would rate Amazon's technical support a nine out of ten.
Cloud engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I can expect a response within fifteen to twenty minutes after I put in a ticket to release the license.
Senior Network At Dxc Technology Professional at DXC Technology
They respond immediately when we do reach out.
Senior Information Technology Security Consultant at Mideast Data Systems
I would rate LoadBalancer Enterprise's customer support at nine out of ten.
Senior L3 Cloud Platform Network & Security Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing efficiently scales workloads, offering seamless integration with auto-scaling, optimizing costs, and preventing downtime.
Sentiment score
7.4
LoadBalancer Enterprise scales efficiently with easy server management, flexible licensing, and minor cost limitations, suiting various business sizes.
It automatically scales up or down based on the quantity of requests, optimizing cost while efficiently managing varying workloads.
Cloud engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Managing traffic load is efficient as Auto Scaling Group can easily be connected with ALB based on the number of requests.
AWS Cloud Solution Developer | DevOps | SpringBoot | Android/iOS at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
LoadBalancer Enterprise is easy to scale, maintain, and modify, which makes adding or removing servers a simple process.
Senior Information Technology Security Consultant at Mideast Data Systems
LoadBalancer Enterprise ensures that it distributes the load properly so that the system is not broken.
Sr QA Automation Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I rate the scalability of LoadBalancer Enterprise as excellent since it adapts perfectly to increased traffic volume or the addition of new applications.
ingénieur réseau at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is praised for stability, reliability, and efficient Auto Scaling, despite occasional performance glitches.
Sentiment score
8.0
LoadBalancer Enterprise maintains high stability with minimal disruptions, efficient issue resolution, seamless failover, and controlled upgrades appreciated by users.
It is a stable and reliable service of AWS.
Cloud engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The regular health checks that LoadBalancer Enterprise performs using regular Jenkins jobs utilize all the functionalities of LoadBalancer Enterprise to make sure everything is working perfectly according to my design.
Sr QA Automation Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
In 90% to 99% of cases, I can say it is seamless.
Senior Information Technology Security Consultant at Mideast Data Systems
LoadBalancer Enterprise is stable.
Senior L3 Cloud Platform Network & Security Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing needs improved integration, security, speed, and support to address user demands and performance challenges effectively.
LoadBalancer Enterprise needs setup simplification, enhanced security, scalability, pricing adjustments, better analytics, documentation, vendor integration, and easier configurations.
The ability to directly block specific IP addresses without additional service integration would be beneficial.
AWS Cloud Solution Developer | DevOps | SpringBoot | Android/iOS at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Improvements could involve making Amazon Elastic Load Balancing a global service, as currently, it is region-specific.
Cloud engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
For example, in India, we have just two regions at the moment, which impacts latency.
Senior technical manager at a recreational facilities/services company with 11-50 employees
If advanced features such as iRules are required, and complete detailed WAF monitoring is desired along with policies that can be learned and then implemented afterwards as you have in F5, then LoadBalancer Enterprise lacks these capabilities.
Senior L3 Cloud Platform Network & Security Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Documentation needs improvement because having information is essential for working with advanced configurations.
Senior Information Technology Security Consultant at Mideast Data Systems
LoadBalancer Enterprise could work more on content caching by bypassing the back-end server more often and making the cache more accessible so that it gives better and more robust results.
Sr QA Automation Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Setup Cost

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing offers competitive pricing with costs from $18-$30 monthly, varying by data and connection usage.
LoadBalancer Enterprise offers cost-effective pricing and flexibility, with annual support, making it valued among enterprise users despite not being the cheapest.
Pricing is okay, and Amazon has plans to reduce prices further.
Manager Development at BNT SOFT INC
Using ALB incurs a cost as opposed to the free open-source solutions like NGINX or HAProxy.
AWS Cloud Solution Developer | DevOps | SpringBoot | Android/iOS at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The setup cost is cheap and licensing is also reasonably priced.
Senior Information Technology Security Consultant at Mideast Data Systems
Regarding the pricing of LoadBalancer Enterprise, I only pay for a license, and whatever license I use doesn't require the same CAPEX investment as physical hardware.
Senior Network At Dxc Technology Professional at DXC Technology
The cost of LoadBalancer Enterprise is better and a bit cheaper compared to other products.
Senior L3 Cloud Platform Network & Security Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing offers scalable traffic distribution, security features, AWS integration, and cost-effective pay-as-you-go pricing, enhancing user experience.
LoadBalancer Enterprise offers efficient load distribution, scalability, user-friendly interface, advanced routing, and seamless integration for high availability.
It is the de facto standard for AWS workloads and supports the AWS ecosystem seamlessly.
Manager Development at BNT SOFT INC
Deploy our solution in multiple availability zones, it ensures that the system is always available and does not go down.
AWS Cloud Solution Developer | DevOps | SpringBoot | Android/iOS at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The Application Load Balancer is noteworthy due to session persistence, traffic distribution, and integration with auto-scaling, which helps manage server scaling automatically based on demand.
Cloud engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Now, we achieve about 99% availability across all servers thanks to the health check feature in the load balancer.
Senior Information Technology Security Consultant at Mideast Data Systems
LoadBalancer Enterprise simulates production traffic profiles by using a realistic traffic generator that models different requests and transaction mixes such as reads and writes, leveraging replay traffic from sanitized production traces whenever possible.
Sr QA Automation Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
LoadBalancer Enterprise has impacted my organization positively by making our applications and services available to all users across the globe.
Senior Team Lead Systems Administrator at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
7th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
LoadBalancer Enterprise
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
8th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) category, the mindshare of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is 2.5%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of LoadBalancer Enterprise is 4.9%, up from 3.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing2.5%
LoadBalancer Enterprise4.9%
Other92.6%
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
 

Featured Reviews

RR
Senior technical manager at a recreational facilities/services company with 11-50 employees
Has helped improve availability and manage peak traffic more efficiently
I am using Elastic File Store for Amazon File Services, which is the full name of the Elastic File System we are working with. I have been working with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing for more than three years for various applications and moving on from F5. We use Amazon Elastic Load Balancing with AWS FSx, a file service from NetApp. When there is high load and an auto-scaling group is attached, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing provides assistance. It provides content-based routing features of the application load balancer, though this adds to cost, so we have those only for critical apps. I utilize the Network Load Balancer, which we still have on-premises. The Network Load Balancer is helpful for performance enhancement and availability. Amazon Elastic Load Balancing offers flexibility as it can be accessed from various regions and zones. Availability is one of the main benefits that Amazon Elastic Load Balancing provides to my company. For any critical application that needs to be available, we use it primarily for availability. Amazon Elastic Load Balancing helps during peak traffic times by using round-robin ordering to move traffic.
SM
Senior L3 Cloud Platform Network & Security Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
High availability and strong security have supported our apps but advanced traffic control still improves
LoadBalancer Enterprise can be improved because the layer seven programmability is not as powerful as it could be. We cannot write code and programming on it. Additionally, access management and identity options are not available here like they are in F5 VPN. The WAF depth and analytics, such as in-depth logs and the WAF learning option that we have in other load balancers, are much easier to configure and to harden the policies and polish them. That option is not here. Fine-tuning is a bit difficult compared to other solutions. The automation and API maturity does not appear to be at the level of other load balancers. The main limitation is that there is nothing here with regards to F5 APM. There is no iRules option or policy option to manipulate the traffic according to requirements, which is a bit difficult. If an organization is basic and does not want very advanced features, then it is acceptable. However, if advanced features such as iRules are required, and complete detailed WAF monitoring is desired along with policies that can be learned and then implemented afterwards as you have in F5, then LoadBalancer Enterprise lacks these capabilities.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Media Company
6%
Construction Company
17%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise19
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing?
Cost is definitely an area of improvement for Amazon. Availability can be improved through the addition of more regions. For example, in India, we have just two regions at the moment, which impacts...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Elastic Load Balancing?
We use several Amazon solutions including Lambda, S3, and EKS. Within EKS, there are various microservices, and DynamoDB is one of them in terms of databases. We also use various applications such ...
What advice do you have for others considering Amazon Elastic Load Balancing?
I would prefer to remain totally anonymous. I am a partner with Amazon. I rate this solution as 8 out of 10.
Do you recommend Loadbalancer.org?
Since Loadbalancer.org is an open-source solution, I would recommend this solution for smaller businesses that don’t have major scaling requirements and don’t have the budget for a commercial solut...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Loadbalancer.org?
I purchased LoadBalancer Enterprise through the AWS marketplace. With the licensing and setup cost, I think it is pretty good, but the overall cost is not something I am aware of. That is handled b...
What needs improvement with Loadbalancer.org?
LoadBalancer Enterprise could provide more flexibility in terms of configuration setup, making it more user-friendly when switching between other software. LoadBalancer Enterprise could work more o...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Vodafone, NASA, Mercedes, NBC, Siemens, AT&T, Barclays, Zurich, Penn State University, Fiserv, Canon, Toyota, University of Cambridge, US Army, US Navy, Ocean Spray, ASOS, Pfizer, BBC, Bacardi, Monsoon, River Island, U.S Air Force, King's College London, NHS, Ricoh, Philips, Santander, TATA Communications, Ericcson, Ross Video, Evertz, TalkTalk TV, Giacom, Rapid Host.
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