Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review Loadmaster is very powerful and flexible load balancer. Variety of options allows to create a complex network of rules and routes. During our website rollout Loadmaster allowed us to run multiple generations of the website simultaneously and seamlessly by doing the content switching on the fly. Powerful API allows easy integration into any development lifecycle.
Read full review Pros 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. Read full review Where the LoadBalancer excels is the multiple levels at which you can load balance servers. We currently use layer 7 LB, but others are available as well. I particularly like the ability for the LB to know when servers are down, and if all are offline then you can create a redirect to a static HTML page or some other destination that is more informative. The ease in which a service can be created and deployed using already pre-canned templates makes it a very convenient setup process. Read full review Cons 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 Read full review Ability to 'clone' existing Virtual Services for rapid deployment of similar ones. A better API for ease of automation. Simplification of Certificate management. Better explanations of Kemp implementations of industry standard protocols like VRRP (or CARP) More control over device factory reset configuration and forcibly breaking HA pairs at boot time Read full review Likelihood to Renew I'm very pleased with the support I've received as well as the quality of the product.
Read full review Usability 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
Read full review Kemp makes it very easy to setup, configure and manage the LoadMaster without needing a lot of help from their engineers. The interface is very easy to understand and intuitive to use. We like how it is not complicated - I can easily have one of my techs login and they can figure out how to setup/configure virtual services for load balancing without needing a manual or tech support.
Read full review Support Rating 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
Read full review Support has been easy to deal with; I have only need[ed] to contact them a few times during setup. Once its been in place and operational, we have not need[ed] to mess with the system [which] is a huge advantage. I like system[s] that do not break and require constant attention in a production environment.
Read full review Implementation Rating The installation was straight forward. Once i installed it, their technical support team helped me with configuration
Read full review Alternatives Considered 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.
Read full review We chose Kemp LoadMaster because it is 1/10 the price of the competition and MUCH easier to deploy and configure and WORKS. We have had ZERO issues with the product since installation. Their engineers and their sales team have both reached out post-install to check in and see if everything is working as expected.
Read full review Return on Investment 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. Read full review We used Kemp LoadMaster for many projects. For a lot of customers, load balancers were too expensive or too complicated before we introduced Kemp products. It's not a overly complicated product, so we were able to train many engineers on it and have them get a certification. Read full review ScreenShots