G2 Vendor Directory

AWS Elastic Load Balancing vs. Amazon Lightsail

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAWS Elastic Load Balancing

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Lightsail

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Overall rating4.54.3
Review count9659
Ease of use8.78.8
Ease of setup8.98.5
Quality of support8.78.0
Meets requirements9.28.7
NPS73.62637455.555556
Small Business25.3%55.9%
Mid-Market46.3%25.4%
Enterprise28.4%18.6%
Total page views176228
Total LLM citations5091,737

AWS Elastic Load Balancing

Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses. 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 that all feature the high availability, automatic scaling, and robust security necessary to make your applications fault tolerant.

Pros

  • Security
  • Ease of Use
  • Scalability
  • Features
  • Cloud Storage
  • Cost Efficiency

Amazon Lightsail

Amazon Lightsail is the easiest way to get started with AWS for developers, small businesses, students, and other users who need a simple virtual private server (VPS) solution. Lightsail provides developers compute, storage, and networking capacity and capabilities to deploy and manage websites and web applications in the cloud. Lightsail includes everything you need to launch your project quickly – a virtual machine, SSD-based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a static IP – for a low, predictable monthly price.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Management Ease
  • Configuration Ease
  • Efficiency
  • Reliability
  • Real-time Analytics