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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing vs VMWare Avi Load Balancer comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

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
5.0
VMWare Avi Load Balancer users see cost savings and improved efficiency, though some haven’t seen immediate financial returns.
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
VMWare Avi Load Balancer has created a smoother failover process without issues, keeping the state normal, where typically there would be manual intervention.
Senior Database Engineer, SRE at Interswitch Group
We can easily identify from the dashboard whether there is any faulty server and monitor the health checks.
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
I have not found any return on investment so far, as it does not really lend itself to that; it is more about not having to stand up another data center for redundancy.
Vdi Consultant at Garbutt Ltd
 

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
6.5
VMware Avi Load Balancer's support is generally positive, with skilled engineers but occasional delays in response times.
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
Once we raise the support case through the portal, they immediately assist us, join a call, and they are fixing the issues and providing solutions for any critical application failure issues.
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
The solution architect from VMware side told me that there would be no issue adding them. Here we are with an RFP, and we cannot add them easily.
Pre Sales at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The support for VMWare Avi Load Balancer is really good, and the integration with other tools is really effective, which makes the overall experience smoother.
Senior Database Engineer, SRE at Interswitch Group
 

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
7.0
VMWare Avi Load Balancer is highly scalable, efficiently managing traffic but needs GSLB for better scalability and user satisfaction.
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
I would rate the scalability of VMWare Avi Load Balancer a perfect ten out of ten because it senses traffic and scales automatically, also scaling down when there is no need, making it very elastic, resulting in zero costs when there is no traffic, which is excellent.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Publicis Sapient
VMware Avi Load Balancer is software defined, and due to that, scaling is very much easier compared with other products and traditional hardware appliances.
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
In my role as a database engineer, scalability works in two layers and rarely becomes a bottleneck.
Senior Database Engineer, SRE at Interswitch Group
 

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
8.1
VMWare Avi Load Balancer offers reliable performance, stability, and centralized management, ideal for small to medium businesses.
It is a stable and reliable service of AWS.
Cloud engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
VMWare Avi Load Balancer is very reliable and stable.
Vdi Consultant at Garbutt Ltd
VMWare Avi Load Balancer is stable based on my experience.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Publicis Sapient
I would like to provide a rating of nine out of ten for this product for stability and scalability.
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
 

Room For Improvement

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing needs improved integration, security, speed, and support to address user demands and performance challenges effectively.
VMWare Avi Load Balancer requires better pricing, documentation, integration, setup ease, and enhanced functionalities for smaller IT teams.
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
Predictive analytics for capacity planning and additional built-in operational reports on the dashboard would help infrastructure teams during daily monitoring.
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
Multi-cloud capability comes from a configuration called NSX Extended.
Pre Sales at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The need for policy execution tracing to simplify debugging is evident because if connections are routed incorrectly, for example, directly to a replica, debugging can become painful in production.
Senior Database Engineer, SRE at Interswitch Group
 

Setup Cost

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing offers competitive pricing with costs from $18-$30 monthly, varying by data and connection usage.
VMWare Avi Load Balancer offers flexible, subscription-based pricing but may be seen as costlier than some alternatives.
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 experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing shows that its pricing is quite pricier compared to Anthos Service Mesh.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Publicis Sapient
it operates on a capacity and consumption model, unlike traditional appliances that charge based on hardware.
Senior Database Engineer, SRE at Interswitch Group
 

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.
The platform offers seamless integration, stability, scalability, and advanced analytics with centralized management and multi-cloud support enhancing performance.
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
Since implementing VMWare Avi Load Balancer, we no longer need to manually change IP addresses in our configuration, as Avi automates this process, which controls traffic and network appropriately, adding a layer of security and assurance.
Senior Database Engineer, SRE at Interswitch Group
The special capability I appreciate about VMWare Avi Load Balancer is its ease of use; it is very lightweight and quite inexpensive to deploy.
Vdi Consultant at Garbutt Ltd
It enables flexible deployment across environments and elastic auto-scaling, automatically scaling load balancer capacity based on traffic, then adding and removing service engines dynamically without over-provisioning, which leads to lower infrastructure costs and efficient handling of sudden traffic spikes.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Publicis Sapient
 

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
VMWare Avi Load Balancer
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
11th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
15
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 VMWare Avi Load Balancer is 4.4%, down from 5.7% 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%
VMWare Avi Load Balancer4.4%
Other93.1%
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
 

Featured Reviews

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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.
Sasikiran Sakalabattina - PeerSpot reviewer
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
Centralized load management has improved availability and reduces manual effort for critical apps
The features we use most frequently in VMware Avi Load Balancer are virtual services, backend pools, health monitoring, and Layer 7 load balancing. Virtual services are a component of VMware Avi Load Balancer that serves as the primary entry point for the client traffic. In our application, I regularly create and manage the virtual services for the web applications, APIs, and internal business applications. We configure SSL certificates for load balancing the policies and health monitoring at the virtual service. The best feature of VMware Avi Load Balancer is health monitoring. The most valuable feature for me is the health monitoring capability. In our production environment with more than one thousand virtual machines, it continuously checks the health of the backend application servers. During monthly Windows patching or unexpected application failures, unhealthy pool members are automatically removed from the service. This feature is significantly reducing the traffic directed to unhealthy services without any manual intervention. Once the application server is restored, VMware Avi Load Balancer automatically adds the server back to the pool. This feature has significantly improved the application availability and is reducing the business downtime. Due to this, manual interventions required are minimal, so it is saving time.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Media Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Government
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

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 Business6
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise9
 

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.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Avi Networks Software Load Balancer?
Regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing, senior administrators manage this aspect, and I am not fully aware of it. However, I can say that compared to other products, the pricing for VMWare Av...
What needs improvement with Avi Networks Software Load Balancer?
VMware Avi Load Balancer is actually a mature and reliable product, but there are areas where it could improve, such as improving the cloud environments. I would like to see more automated root-cau...
What advice do you have for others considering Avi Networks Software Load Balancer?
I would like to give the rating of nine out of ten for VMware Avi Load Balancer because it is an excellent product with centralized management where we can manage every virtual machine in one conso...
 

Also Known As

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Avi Software Load Balancer
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Palo Alto Networks, DGDean, Swisslos
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