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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. Amazon Lightsail

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

MetricF5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

by F5

Amazon Lightsail

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Overall rating4.54.3
Review count4059
Ease of use9.18.8
Ease of setup8.98.5
Quality of support8.88.0
Meets requirements9.38.7
NPS73.52941255.555556
Small Business8.1%55.9%
Mid-Market21.6%25.4%
Enterprise70.3%18.6%
Total page views186228
Total LLM citations1,1461,737

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

F5 BIG-IP LTM optimizes the speed and reliability of your applications via both network and application layers. Using real-time protocol and traffic management decisions based on application and server conditions, extensive connection management, and TCP and content offloading, BIG-IP LTM dramatically improves application and infrastructure responsiveness. LTM's full proxy architecture give users protocol awareness to control traffic for the most important applications.

Pros

  • Features
  • Configuration Ease
  • Security
  • Reliability
  • Load Balancing
  • Simple

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