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Elastic Load Balancing

byAmazon Web Services (AWS)
in Application Delivery Controllers
4.3

Overview

Product Information on Elastic Load Balancing

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Elastic Load Balancing?

Elastic Load Balancing is a software provided by Amazon Web Services that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses, within a single or multiple availability zones. The software enables applications to achieve high availability and fault tolerance by routing requests based on configurable algorithms and health check mechanisms. Elastic Load Balancing supports handling varying traffic loads, integrates with security features such as SSL termination and authentication, and provides detailed visibility into traffic patterns through monitoring and logging capabilities. It addresses the challenge of maintaining application reliability and scalability by dynamically adjusting to traffic demands and endpoint health.

Elastic Load Balancing Pricing

Elastic Load Balancing is a service that uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model based on the number of hours or partial hours the service is running, the amount of data processed, and the type of load balancer selected. Pricing may vary depending on features such as application or network load balancing and additional capabilities configured within the service.

Overall experience with Elastic Load Balancing

SEO MANAGER
<50M USD, Media
FAVORABLE

“Simple Setup and Strong Traffic Management but Higher Costs for Small Apps”

4.0
Sep 22, 2025
It's great for scalable apps, and a great way to handle web traffic.
Software Engineer
50M - 250M USD, Software
CRITICAL

“ELB's Essential Role in Efficient, High-Performance Cloud Infrastructures”

3.0
Jan 11, 2025
In my organization, ELB has become an essential part of my cloud infrastructure, especially when managing distributed systems and ensuring that traffic is routed efficiently across multiple servers.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

Company Details

Updated 23rd December 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2006
Head office location
Seattle, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Website
http://aws.amazon.com

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Elastic Load Balancing Likes & Dislikes

Like

The setup process was simple and it made distribution of traffic easy. It was particularly good for high traffic apps.

Like

For my projects, ELB is the solution for automated balancing the load and its integration with API gateway as well as ec2, ecs makes it easy to setup. It is a key component for maintaining high availability and performance. The best part is it comes with AWS managed scaling

Like

its working as expected for the organization we are still exploring

Dislike

I found the troubleshooting tricky. I think the cost is very high for smaller apps. Sometimes it can be delayed to respond.

Dislike

For my team troubleshooting sometimes get difficult, that cause of familier usecases may be

Dislike

latest features are cost effective need to the organization

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Elastic Load Balancing Reviews and Ratings

4.3

(118 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
45%
4 Star
55%
3 Star
0%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

Integration & Deployment

4.5

Service & Support

4.4

Product Capabilities

4.4

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  • SEO MANAGER
    <50M USD
    Media
    Review Source

    Simple Setup and Strong Traffic Management but Higher Costs for Small Apps

    4.0
    Sep 22, 2025
    It's great for scalable apps, and a great way to handle web traffic.
  • LEAD
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Government
    Review Source

    Satisfactory Performance Observed While Exploring, Latest Features Considered Expensive

    4.0
    Jul 16, 2025
    good working according to the apps need we are still exploring
  • VP, Engineering
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Positive Views on Route53 and ELB, Concerns About Elasticity and Usability

    4.0
    Jul 16, 2025
    excellent and use of easy and speed adaptability and time saving
  • AWS Cloud Engineer
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Amazon ELB: Seamless Scalability with Reliable Traffic Management

    5.0
    Feb 10, 2025
    Amazon ELB has been reliable for managing traffic and offers seamless scalability with minimal hassle. Configuring it initially and troubleshooting obscure error messages can sometimes be challenging.
  • AWS cloud engineer
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    AWS ELB: An Effective Traffic Manager for Your App

    4.0
    Jan 10, 2025
    AWS ELB is, to your app, a traffic manager, ensuring that proper requests are sent to proper servers, providing a spread of incoming traffic across multiple servers to avoid one server from crashing because of high traffic.
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