AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) vs Google Cloud Load Balancing: What are the differences?
What is AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)? Automatically distribute your incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. With Elastic Load Balancing, you can add and remove EC2 instances as your needs change without disrupting the overall flow of information. If one EC2 instance fails, Elastic Load Balancing automatically reroutes the traffic to the remaining running EC2 instances. If the failed EC2 instance is restored, Elastic Load Balancing restores the traffic to that instance. Elastic Load Balancing offers clients a single point of contact, and it can also serve as the first line of defense against attacks on your network. You can offload the work of encryption and decryption to Elastic Load Balancing, so your servers can focus on their main task.
What is Google Cloud Load Balancing? A global load balancing on Google's worldwide network. You can scale your applications on Google Compute Engine from zero to full-throttle with it, with no pre-warming needed. You can distribute your load-balanced compute resources in single or multiple regions, close to your users and to meet your high availability requirements.
AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and Google Cloud Load Balancing can be categorized as "Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy" tools.
Coursera, 9GAG, and Quora are some of the popular companies that use AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), whereas Google Cloud Load Balancing is used by Evernote, PointsHound, and BetterCloud. AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) has a broader approval, being mentioned in 943 company stacks & 1738 developers stacks; compared to Google Cloud Load Balancing, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
Pros of AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
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