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At a Glance
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
Star Rating
(165)4.6 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (41.1% of reviews)
Information
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
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Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront
Star Rating
(182)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (47.4% of reviews)
Information
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
Learn more about Amazon CloudFront
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AWS Elastic Load Balancing vs Amazon CloudFront

When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found AWS Elastic Load Balancing easier to use, set up, and administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with AWS Elastic Load Balancing overall.

  • Reviewers felt that AWS Elastic Load Balancing meets the needs of their business better than Amazon CloudFront.
  • When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that AWS Elastic Load Balancing is the preferred option.
  • For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of AWS Elastic Load Balancing over Amazon CloudFront.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
No pricing available
Amazon CloudFront
No pricing available
Free Trial
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
No trial information available
Amazon CloudFront
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
9.2
141
9.1
156
Ease of Use
8.6
142
8.0
158
Ease of Setup
8.6
92
8.0
101
Ease of Admin
8.4
86
8.0
100
Quality of Support
8.6
139
8.2
131
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
9.0
85
8.8
97
Product Direction (% positive)
9.8
129
8.6
153
Features by Category
Content Delivery Network (CDN)Hide 10 FeaturesShow 10 Features
Not enough data
8.3
994
Content
Not enough data
9.1
115
Not enough data
8.6
96
Not enough data
7.8
106
Security
Not enough data
9.1
107
Not enough data
8.6
85
Management
Not enough data
7.9
113
Not enough data
7.6
104
Not enough data
7.9
101
Integration
Not enough data
8.7
94
Not enough data
7.6
73
Not enough data
Not enough data
Usability - Load Balancing
Not enough data
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Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Performance Optimization - Load Balancing
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Security & Compliance - Load Balancing
Not enough data
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Not enough data
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront
AWS Elastic Load Balancing and Amazon CloudFront share no categories
Unique Categories
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
AWS Elastic Load Balancing is categorized as Load Balancing
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront is categorized as Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
28.5%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
41.1%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
30.4%
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
47.4%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
33.5%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
19.1%
Reviewers' Industry
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
Information Technology and Services
26.6%
Computer Software
21.5%
Financial Services
6.3%
Telecommunications
5.7%
Computer & Network Security
3.2%
Other
36.7%
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront
Information Technology and Services
19.1%
Computer Software
15.0%
Internet
8.1%
Marketing and Advertising
5.2%
Entertainment
4.6%
Other
48.0%
Most Helpful Reviews
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Kshitij T.
KT
Kshitij T.
Verified User in Computer Software

Elastic load balancing by aws is super easy to use a user can easily manage traffic without any complex scripts and codes just by configuring load balancer from Aws user interface. Elb if allowed can automatically spin up the healthy instances and route...

Most Helpful Critical Review
Spiros P.
SP
Spiros P.
Verified User in Internet

- Let me start by saying that the thing I dislike the most applies to the classic load balancer, which was the one used for my application needs. I did not use or have any experience with either their newest "Application Load Balancer" or the "Network Load...

Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Verified User
G
Verified User in Retail

One of the advantage of using cloud front especially if you are using amazon web services, you do not have to look at another service provider only for content delivery network. Cloud front does most of the things that many big companies does it for...

Most Helpful Critical Review
Tristan W.
TW
Tristan W.
Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

I messed around with Amazon Cloudfront for a bit, but I found little to no benefit from using it. It did not increase my traffic nor did it allow me to view analytics on my site that I was interested in. Not saying the application is bad, just not for...

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AWS Elastic Load Balancing
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Discussions
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
AWS Elastic Load Balancing Discussions
What is AWS Elastic Load Balancing?
1 comment
Syedibrahim  G.
SG
Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes your incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses, in one...Read more
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Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront Discussions
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