AWS Elastic Load Balancing Reviews & Product Details

I like AWS Elastic Load Balancing for its automatic scaling and high availability, which provide hands-off elasticity by allowing the load balancer to scale with traffic. I enjoy its native integration with the AWS stack, working seamlessly with EC2s within ECS and EKS. I also appreciate the health checks and graceful draining features, along with the ALB host and path-based routing, which allow multiple services to live behind a single load balancer. The centralized TLS termination and enhanced security features are also valuable to me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think AWS Elastic Load Balancing could use better cost visibility. A cost dashboard as part of the AWS console for ALB would be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I appreciate most about AWS Elastic Load Balancing is its seamless integration with other AWS services, which ensures high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability—all without the need for manual infrastructure management.

From an engineering standpoint, I find it especially valuable that ELB can automatically scale in response to incoming traffic, conduct intelligent health checks, and direct requests exclusively to healthy targets. This applies whether the targets are EC2 instances, containers running in ECS or EKS, or even specific IP addresses.

The Application Load Balancer’s ability to support both path-based and host-based routing, along with its native integration with ACM for SSL termination, makes it particularly well-suited for modern microservice architectures. In summary, ELB enables me to concentrate on deployment and application performance, while AWS efficiently manages the complexities of load balancing in the background. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One limitation I’ve observed with AWS Elastic Load Balancing is that it can sometimes feel restrictive when it comes to customization and visibility. For instance, troubleshooting connection issues can be challenging because the detailed connection logs are not always straightforward to interpret, and the available metrics may be more limited than what you might get with a custom load balancer setup.

Additionally, the pricing can become significant in high-traffic scenarios, as ELB charges separately for usage hours, data processed, and LCU consumption. In certain situations, making adjustments to timeouts or implementing advanced routing logic may require additional configuration steps or even the use of external solutions.

Nevertheless, these compromises are understandable given that it is a fully managed and highly available service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS elastic load balancing automatically distributes traffic to keep application highly available and reliable. It also easly integrate with EC2/EKS & ASG , making scaling and failover easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Troubleshooting and configuration (listeners, target groups, SSL, health checks) can sometimes be complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS ELB takes away huge chunk of manual work by automatically distributing incoming traffic across multiple targets like EC2 instances, containers and IPs.

The integration with auto scaling is fantastic.

Its incredibly reliable, stable under high load, and fits perfectly within the AWS ecosystem.

The monitoring with Cloudwatch is also a big plus for real-time visibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The pricing model can get slightly confusing, especially when handling unpredictable traffic patterns. Also, configuration of advanced routing rule like path-based or host based could be more intuitive in the UI, Sometimes you need to reply on CLI or CLoudFormation for precision. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like AWS Elastic Load Balancing because it automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers, ensuring that no single server gets overloaded. It helps applications stay reliable and available, even if one server goes down. What’s great is that it automatically scales up or down based on demand, so your application performs well during both high and low traffic periods. It also includes built-in health checks that monitor servers and route traffic only to healthy ones. ELB works seamlessly with other AWS services like EC2, ECS, and Auto Scaling, making it easy to manage and secure your applications. Plus, it supports different types of load balancers for various use cases, offers strong security features like SSL/TLS encryption, and is cost-effective since you pay only for what you use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One area where AWS Elastic Load Balancing can improve is in simplifying its configuration and monitoring. Sometimes, setting up advanced routing rules or integrating with multiple services can feel a bit complex for new users. The monitoring and logging options, though powerful, could also be made more user-friendly with clearer insights and easier troubleshooting tools. Additionally, reducing latency in cross-region load balancing and offering more cost transparency would make it even better for businesses that manage large-scale or global applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

All services with pay as you go feature, global infrastructure, scalability & flexibility, security, more than 300 services including AI&ML all in one place, IAC code and automation, ease of implementation and good customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Complex pricing structure, it has costing for each and every services for if you use it for a minute or two, documentation in not very much proper in each document you have to go to another document to get more info about that. GUI changes very frequently somehow we get usedto the gui but the moment we get used to it the gui changes which make it difficult to understand the gui. support plans are costly if you want more better support for ease of implementation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Cloud is the best cloud service provider for B2B companies and large B2C companies. My B2B company has five software (3 Business Software and 2 Management Software) deployed on AWS, and it provides us very smooth response. Before every business deal we always show our website to the client for more information about our company. In my 3+ years of experience in AWS our website never faced any bad server experience or security issue in AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Currently I am using AWS and our website is uploaded to AWS using CI/CD GitHub Actions. The response is so good and smooth. so currently I'm not facing any problems using AWS, that's why I don't dislike the AWS cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1:-Time-efficient and easy to use from making an Instance to maintaining it.

2:- Worldwide access and support to Grow.

3:- Daily usage and implementation are easy.

4:- Very much secure in terms of security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1:- Sometimes Interface is a bit confusing.

2:- You have to monitor the instance for excess running time which will cost much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the user-friendly console and its services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

in that cloud formation designer we have to add parameters manually Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm using AWS cloud for over 2 years helps me to create an instance in the cloud environment with compute and storage resources instantly according to my requirement and OS of my choice which provides huge value for me in my security assessment job. Also I use AWS s3 to host a static page, helps me in creating proof of concept for my report. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Practioners who wants to create resource in cloud environment having a barrier in creating a account without credit card. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.