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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. AWS Elastic Load Balancing

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

MetricF5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

by F5

AWS Elastic Load Balancing

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Overall rating4.54.5
Review count4096
Ease of use9.18.7
Ease of setup8.98.9
Quality of support8.88.7
Meets requirements9.39.2
NPS73.52941273.626374
Small Business8.1%25.3%
Mid-Market21.6%46.3%
Enterprise70.3%28.4%
Total page views186176
Total LLM citations1,146509

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

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