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F5 BIG-IP has been a staple in our environment and has allowed us to create a secure, easy to access boundary. Their support is top-notch and has always been prompt with any of our issues that have arisen.

route 53 works seamlessly with out devops infrastructure and provides us confidence in our setup. we can be hands off knowing the reliability provided by amazon. being able to integrate aws services across our dev team and envirnoments helps make everything work seamlessly and helps us monitor and maintain our infrastracute. we continue to look for new aws tools to implemt that can streamlien out processes. amazon bedrock is our newest prodict that wr are lookijg at implementing for advanced llm services and guardrails ehen using ai in our service.

LoadBalancer.org products have been stable and perform as expected. Documentation is accurate and complete, Support is top tier. The software works as expected

We have been using AWS Elastic load balancing for manage service platform hosted in AWS EC2. We have hosted the CloudFX manage service platform which includes SelectFX, SinglePaneFX and KeyCloak for SSO in AWS EC2 servers. All CloudFX manage service platform application console configured to access through AWS Elastic load balancer and configured traffic management through load balancer. Also verifying application availability through load balancer. Elastic load balancer acting as network bridge for applications to access over internet. As of now, we have configured rule for port-to-port mapping to access all 3 application consoles using 443 over internet as all 3 CloudFX application running on different port locally. Overall, AWS Elastic Load Balancer is mature, dependable and scalable load balancing platform.

We are using Radware as a load balancer in our IoT environment where it is handling requests from more than 400 000 IoT devices. It efficiently distributes requests from these devices to our backend servers and maintains stable performance even during peak traffic periods. So far we haven't had any major issues or downtime and the set up is pretty easy and intuitive and it is providing good visibility.

The product has been extremely great to use. Its Application Delivery Controller along with SSL offloading is great and and its very easy to scale. The AXAPI feature has helped us integrate with CICD. which has been very helpful during patching of real servers.

What makes NetScaler to be one, if not, the best Application Delivery Controller is that it optimizes application delivery to end users with excellent performance gains. Aside from the application's performance, it will also be secure. NetScaler has been one of the leading ADCs in the market and a lot of our customers continue to use it for those reasons. However, due to the recent acquisition by CSG, it may have become a bit pricey for our small to medium customers.

NGinx Plus is an All-in-One complete platform for Application delivery, hosting and security. It consists of a web server, forward and reverse proxy, API gateway and load balancer. NGinx also has a Web Application Firewall that protects applications from OWASP Top 10 threats, but as a separate license. NGinx also comes as Open Source, however with NGinx Plus comes a commercial version with premium support from F5. F5 has a line of distributors and partners that provide NGinx Plus with managed service. NGinx is mainly designed for Linux based OS and can be installed as On-Premise version or can be used over cloud.