AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) vs DigitalOcean Load Balancer vs HAProxy

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AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

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Pros of AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
Pros of DigitalOcean Load Balancer
Pros of HAProxy
  • 48
    Easy
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    ASG integration
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    Reliability
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    Coding
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    SSL offloading
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    • 131
      Load balancer
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      High performance
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      Very fast
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      Proxying for tcp and http
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      SSL termination
    • 31
      Open source
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      Reliable
    • 20
      Free
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      Well-Documented
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      Very popular
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      Runs health checks on backends
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      Suited for very high traffic web sites
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      Scalable
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      Ready to Docker
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      Powers many world's most visited sites
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      Simple
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      Work with NTLM
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      Ssl offloading
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      Available as a plugin for OPNsense

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    Cons of AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
    Cons of DigitalOcean Load Balancer
    Cons of HAProxy
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        No Let's Encrypt wildcard certificate support
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        Becomes your single point of failure

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      What is AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)?

      With Elastic Load Balancing, you can add and remove EC2 instances as your needs change without disrupting the overall flow of information. If one EC2 instance fails, Elastic Load Balancing automatically reroutes the traffic to the remaining running EC2 instances. If the failed EC2 instance is restored, Elastic Load Balancing restores the traffic to that instance. Elastic Load Balancing offers clients a single point of contact, and it can also serve as the first line of defense against attacks on your network. You can offload the work of encryption and decryption to Elastic Load Balancing, so your servers can focus on their main task.

      What is DigitalOcean Load Balancer?

      Load Balancers are a highly available, fully-managed service that work right out of the box and can be deployed as fast as a Droplet. Load Balancers distribute incoming traffic across your infrastructure to increase your application's availability.

      What is HAProxy?

      HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

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      What are some alternatives to AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), DigitalOcean Load Balancer, and HAProxy?
      Traefik
      A modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy. Traefik integrates with your existing infrastructure components and configures itself automatically and dynamically.
      Envoy
      Originally built at Lyft, Envoy is a high performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services and applications, as well as a communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large microservice “service mesh” architectures.
      Fly
      Deploy apps through our global load balancer with minimal shenanigans. All Fly-enabled applications get free SSL certificates, accept traffic through our global network of datacenters, and encrypt all traffic from visitors through to application servers.
      Google Cloud Load Balancing
      You can scale your applications on Google Compute Engine from zero to full-throttle with it, with no pre-warming needed. You can distribute your load-balanced compute resources in single or multiple regions, close to your users and to meet your high availability requirements.
      F5 BIG-IP
      It ensures that applications are always secure and perform the way they should. You get built-in security, traffic management, and performance application services, whether your applications live in a private data center or in the cloud.
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