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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing vs. F5 on IBM Cloud

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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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    F5 on IBM Cloud

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AF5 on IBM Cloud lets you see and control all traffic passing through your network. F5’s highly scalable, resilient and reusable services dynamically adapt to ensure application availability, performance and security.N/A
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    Elastic Load BalancingF5 on IBM Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Gateway
    $0.0125
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    Application
    $0.0225
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    Network
    $0.025
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    Elastic Load BalancingF5 on IBM Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Azure Application Gateway
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Azure Application Gateway
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    NetScaler
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Elastic Load BalancingF5 on IBM Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    Elastic Load BalancingF5 on IBM Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    IBM
    F5 on IBM Cloud has efficient ways to manage traffic, both local and that from the international sources. Besides, the firewall evaluations and management is handled by the program. F5 on IBM Cloud has a well designed virtual machine configuration, following both small and the largest templates for efficiency. The network configuration and monitoring is also deployed in the program.
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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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    IBM
    • F5 on IBM Cloud has application security features.
    • Besides, the extensive local traffic management from the application is efficient.
    • Lastly, the program acts as an advanced firewall managing tool.
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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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    IBM
    • F5 on IBM Cloud is a virtual edition, which is technical.
    • The subscription fee is extensive and expensive.
    • F5 on IBM Cloud configuration process requires an expertise.
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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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    IBM
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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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    IBM
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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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    IBM
    F5 on IBM Cloud is substantially competent in managing traffic, through network configuration and monitoring. The presence of a software security manager also suits the program for stability and confidence. Besides, F5 on IBM Cloud has an infrastructure management feature, which deals with storage, network, and the general hardware that supports systems.
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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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    IBM
    • F5 on IBM Cloud offers a traffic report that is critical for decisions.
    • Firewall management eliminates chances of threats and destruction.
    • Network monitoring and configurations keeps us safe and monitored.
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