G2 Vendor Directory

AWS Elastic Load Balancing vs. HAProxy

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

MetricAWS Elastic Load Balancing

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

HAProxy

by HAProxy

Overall rating4.54.7
Review count96914
Ease of use8.78.9
Ease of setup8.98.8
Quality of support8.79.2
Meets requirements9.29.3
NPS73.62637478.169791
Small Business25.3%20.9%
Mid-Market46.3%42.8%
Enterprise28.4%36.2%
Total page views1763,044
Total LLM citations5099,797

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

HAProxy

HAProxy is an open-source software load balancer and reverse proxy for TCP, QUIC, and HTTP-based applications. It provides high availability, load balancing, and best-in-class SSL processing. HAProxy One is an application delivery and security platform that combines the HAProxy core with enterprise-grade security layers, management and orchestration, cloud-native integration, and more.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Load Balancing
  • Reliability
  • Performance
  • Performance Optimization
  • Configuration Ease