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AWS Elastic Load Balancing alternatives

AWS Elastic Load Balancing routes application traffic among targets and virtual appliances across Availability Zones. Its Application, Network, Gateway, and Classic Load Balancers cover different traffic patterns, with automatic capacity scaling and configurable health checks. It also supports TLS termination and certificate management, and offers CloudWatch metrics and logging across its four load balancer types. Application Load Balancers add HTTP features such as header-based routing and gRPC; Network Load Balancers support static Elastic IP addresses and AWS PrivateLink for TCP and TLS listeners.

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   VMware Workstation Pro

   Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWindows

   Free desktop virtualization on Windows or Linux — VMware Workstation Pro is a desktop hypervisor for x86_64 guests, rather than a service that distributes application traffic.

   Free plan Visit site
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   HAProxy Community Edition

   Free plan Open source APILinuxMac+2

   Free TCP and HTTP reverse proxying on Linux — HAProxy Community Edition provides a free, self-hosted TCP and HTTP reverse proxy, while ELB is a managed AWS service with four load balancer types.

   9.0 Free plan Visit site
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   Linux Virtual Server

   Free plan LinuxSelf-hosted

   Linux server clusters needing Layer 4 balancing — Linux Virtual Server builds a virtual server from real servers using kernel-level IPVS transport balancing and optional application-level KTCPVS.

   6.9 Free plan Visit site
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   MetalLB

   Free plan LinuxSelf-hosted

   Kubernetes clusters outside cloud providers — MetalLB assigns Kubernetes service IPs from configured pools and announces them through ARP, NDP, or BGP, unlike ELB's managed AWS balancing.

   6.9 Open source Visit site
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   Array APV

   Paid APILinuxSelf-hosted+1

   Application delivery across appliance and cloud deployments — Array APV combines Layer 2–7 balancing with acceleration, caching, compression, and security, and can run as physical or virtual appliances across several environments.

   5.7 Pricing on request Visit site
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   PureLB

   Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted

   Bare-metal Kubernetes services with dual-stack address pools — PureLB allocates Kubernetes service IPs from local, remote, or Netbox pools and announces them through Linux networking, optionally using BGP.

   6.6 Open source Visit site
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   F5 BIG-IP APM

   by F5 BIG-IP APM

   Free trial AndroidAPIiPhone+5

   Hybrid zero-trust access and advanced administration — F5 BIG-IP APM focuses on hybrid access management, SSO/SCIM, device posture, and site-to-site networking rather than load balancing.

   Pricing on request Visit site
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   kube-vip

   Free plan LinuxSelf-hosted
   6.7 Open source Visit site
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   A10 Thunder ADC

   by A10 Thunder ADC

   Free trial APILinuxSelf-hosted
   6.5 Pricing on request Visit site
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    OpenELB

    Free plan LinuxSelf-hosted
    6.5 Free plan Visit site
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    Loadbalancer.org Enterprise

    Free trial APILinuxSelf-hosted+1
    6.1 From $150/mo · 30-day trial Visit site
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    Progress Kemp LoadMaster

    Free trial APILinuxSelf-hosted+2
    6.0 Free plan · 30-day trial Visit site
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    Citrix ADC (now NetScaler)

    Paid APILinuxSelf-hosted
    5.8 Pricing on request Visit site
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    IIS Application Request Routing (ARR)

    Free plan Windows
    5.7 Free plan Visit site
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    HAProxy Enterprise

    Paid APILinuxSelf-hosted
    5.6 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Google Cloud Load Balancing

    Paid APIWeb
    5.5 From $0.03 Visit site
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    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DNS

    Paid APILinuxWeb
    5.4 From $1.11 Visit site
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    Radware Alteon

    by Radware Alteon

    Paid APILinuxSelf-hosted+1
    5.4 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer

    Paid Web
    4.9 From $0.01 Visit site
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    Cloudflare Load Balancing

    Paid Web
    4.9 From $5/mo Visit site
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    Azure Load Balancer

    Paid Web
    4.7 30-day trial Visit site
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    Barracuda Load Balancer ADC

    Paid Web
    4.6 Pricing on request Visit site
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    DigitalOcean Load Balancers

    Paid Web
    4.6 From $12/mo Visit site
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    F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager

    Paid
    4.4 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Hetzner Cloud Load Balancer

    Paid Web
    4.4 Visit site
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    OVHcloud Load Balancer

    Paid Web
    4.4 From $22.99/mo Visit site

An alternative may fit better if you want a free, self-hosted tool, a load balancer designed for Kubernetes outside a cloud provider, or an appliance that can run across several environments. ELB is managed and available through APIs and the web, but its charges depend on usage and region, with possible additional data-transfer and public IPv4 costs. Compare operational responsibility, protocol and routing needs, health monitoring, and Kubernetes or hybrid requirements. Also consider migration effort: Application and Classic Load Balancers use different API sets, and the alternatives below vary from reverse proxies to Kubernetes address announcers and access-management products.

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