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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing vs. F5 BIG-IP

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Elastic Load Balancing

    Score6.6 out of 10
    N/AAmazon's Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. 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 with the vendor states all feature the high availability, automatic scaling, and robust security necessary to make…

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    F5 BIG-IP

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AF5 BIG-IP software from Seattle-based F5 Networks is a load balancing and application protection solution suite available on cloud or via virtual editions, on a subscription or perpetual licensing basis.N/A
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    Elastic Load BalancingF5 BIG-IP
    Editions & Modules
    Gateway
    $0.0125
    Partial Hour
    Application
    $0.0225
    Partial Hour
    Network
    $0.025
    Partial Hour
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    Pricing Offerings
    Elastic Load BalancingF5 BIG-IP
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Elastic Load BalancingF5 BIG-IP
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Elastic Load Balancing
    Again as noted we're still in the trial process seeing if we want to migrate over but the biggest benefit of elb is its interconnectivity with other Amazon web services hosted applications that our company is using and the in-house support from AWS. This is very attractive when …
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    F5
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Elastic Load BalancingF5 BIG-IP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    9.2
    (129 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.2
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)