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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing vs. Azure Application Gateway vs. Azure Load Balancer

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    Elastic Load Balancing

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AAmazon's Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. It can handle the varying load of your application traffic in a single Availability Zone or across multiple Availability Zones. Elastic Load Balancing offers three types of load balancers with the vendor states all feature the high availability, automatic scaling, and robust security necessary to make…

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    Azure Application Gateway

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Azure Application Gateway is a platform-managed, scalable, and highly available application delivery controller as a service with integrated web application firewall.N/A

    Azure Load Balancer

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Azure Load Balancer provides built-in load balancing for cloud services and virtual machines, so the user can create highly-available and scalable applications in minutes.

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    Elastic Load BalancingAzure Application GatewayAzure Load Balancer
    Editions & Modules
    Gateway
    $0.0125
    Partial Hour
    Application
    $0.0225
    Partial Hour
    Network
    $0.025
    Partial Hour
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    Additional Rules
    $0.01
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    First 5 Rules
    $0.025
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    Offerings
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Considered Multiple Products
    Amazon AWS
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    Microsoft
    Chose Azure Application Gateway
    Other load balancing tools in Azure (Azure LB and Azure Traffic Manager) are limited in their functionality in comparison with the Azure Application Gateway, and also, they don't provide security features. Azure Firewall, although it has security features, is more expensive, …
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    Chose Azure Application Gateway
    I have my dependency application in Azure Application Gateway. I had to use this, and it has all the features we were looking for.
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    Microsoft
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure Application Gateway
    Score8.8 out of 10
    NetScaler
    Score8 out of 10
    F5 BIG-IP
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    NetScaler
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Elastic Load BalancingAzure Application GatewayAzure Load Balancer
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
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    Usability
    7.0
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    7.0
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    User Testimonials
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    Amazon AWS
    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.
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    Microsoft
    For building scalable and highly available applications, Azure Application Gateway does most of the job on behalf of you; automatically load-balancing traffic from a number of users to a number of back-end servers. This ensure scalability and availability. The in-built security is great as can be expected from Microsoft, and user has a variety of tools for monitoring the health of the load-balancing function as well as the health of back end servers behind it.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • 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.
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    Microsoft
    • Easy integration with Load Balancer and Azure Scale Set to provide a full solution for traffic management.
    • With rich routing rule, we could use one Application Gateway as the central point for all internal applications to expose to the external network.
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    Microsoft
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • 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
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    Microsoft
    • More cost-effective pricing plans are welcome for the future, especially for WAF
    • Ability to automate the TLS certificate renewal procedure
    • Ability to manage non-HTTP traffic
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    Microsoft
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    AWS Elastic Load Balancing has this trick. First, you need to know how it works. ELB is not the only piece here. ELB has a very close relation with AWS Target Groups. You create or select a target group every time you create a Load balancer. Target groups allow you to connect the load balancer to EC2 autoscaling groups, Lambda functions, or even a single EC2 instance. While this sounds complex, it becomes easy, once you know his tricks. Thanks to the user interface, managing a ELB is an easy task. The rules editor is really useful, although it will need a bit of improvement to some interface items
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    Microsoft
    Most of the Application Gateway's features and services can be managed and re-configured via either the Azure Portal GUI or via the Azure Cloud Shell, thus allowing both CLI modes, i.e. Azure CLI (Bash) and Azure Powershell. The v2 version of Application Gateway has significantly improved performance during initial configuration or during re-configuration changes, thus making it much more usable for IT admins, as compared to v1.
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    Microsoft
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    AWS gives you several support plans. On the free plan, you basicaly need to google for help, but the good news is that AWS Elastic Load Balancing works. We has more than 15 load balancers and we never run into a problem that require support. But you mght consider a support plan if you are going to do something more complex or critical
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    Microsoft
    I don’t like that it's part of the Microsoft brand. In general, I am not a fan of Microsoft products but Azure gets it right.
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    Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    We have not used any other solution out there in the market but our dev-ops team did deep research and AWS provided us the solution we needed to be cost-effective. Also, the decision to keep working with Amazon was strategic. We were already using other AWS features and [Amazon Elastic Load Balancing] integrates great with those.
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    Microsoft
    Other load balancing tools in Azure (Azure LB and Azure Traffic Manager) are limited in their functionality in comparison with the Azure Application Gateway, and also, they don't provide security features. Azure Firewall, although it has security features, is more expensive, and most importantly, it's not a load balancer at all.
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    Microsoft
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Currently it is too soon to say for sure what kind of impact this will have.
    • The ideal goal is that this will be cheaper than having to host our own routing on site.
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    Microsoft
    • Positive : Improved performance and scalability
    • Positive : Better and enhanced Security
    • Positive : Efficiency
    • Negative: Cost
    • Negative: More resources to manage.
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