AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) vs HAProxy vs Katran

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Pros of AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
Pros of HAProxy
Pros of Katran
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    Easy
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    ASG integration
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    Reliability
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    Coding
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    SSL offloading
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    Load balancer
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    High performance
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    Very fast
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    Proxying for tcp and http
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    SSL termination
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    Open source
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    Reliable
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    Free
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    Well-Documented
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    Very popular
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    Runs health checks on backends
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    Suited for very high traffic web sites
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    Scalable
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    Ready to Docker
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    Powers many world's most visited sites
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    Simple
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    Ssl offloading
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    Work with NTLM
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    Available as a plugin for OPNsense
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    Redis
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    Cons of AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
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        Becomes your single point of failure
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        What is AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)?

        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 HAProxy?

        HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

        What is Katran?

        katran is a cpp library and bpf program to build high performance layer 4 load balancing forwarding plane. katran leverages XDP infrastructure from the kernel to provide in-kernel facility for fast packet's processing.

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