The right balance to serve high traffic websites
November 14, 2020
The right balance to serve high traffic websites

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
We decided to use Amazon Elastic Load Balancing in conjunction with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to host our websites. We have websites that have peak traffic on some periods of the year, so we needed an elastic infrastructure that helps us to serve our websites with no downtimes and good performance. And that's what we get using this platform. So, we now have more reliable websites.
Pros
- Good price for a complete load balancing solution
- Very useful rules editor on listener
- Working in conjuction with AWS WAF, is a good option to protect your applications
Cons
- Unsing certificates from Amazon Certficate Manager don't work well
- On high traffic websites can be pricey
- HTTP/2 implementation creates problems from time to time on Apple devices / Safari
- Cost effective solution: we now have more websites, that work better and we pay same as before migrating to AWS
- Help us on improved security, allowing us to use AWS WAF
- Rules on listeners allow us to do complicated stuff by ourselves
In the past we use physical Load Balancers. That solution works, but it had several negative points. The first, it was not elastic. It requires a physical server setup in order to work. Also a technician works for one or more days to set up the solution. And then, we had the servers, that weed to be replicated. That was very costly and requires several hours to process changes on the load balancer.
AWS ELB is a huge step and seriously, after trying it, can't go back to physical servers to serve websites.
AWS ELB is a huge step and seriously, after trying it, can't go back to physical servers to serve websites.
Do you think Amazon Elastic Load Balancing delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing's feature set?
Yes
Did Amazon Elastic Load Balancing live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Amazon Elastic Load Balancing again?
Yes
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