🆚 Application Request Routing vs. Envoy

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Type

Load balancer
Load balancer

About

Application Request Routing is a module for Internet Information Server (IIS) that can load-balance between multiple servers in a server farm.

Envoy is a high-performance, open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures.

It provides advanced L4/L7 load balancing, HTTP/2 and gRPC proxying, service discovery integration, observability with distributed tracing and rich metrics, and dynamic configuration via xDS APIs.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Categories

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Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Application Request Routing load balancer is 1.3 times more popular than Envoy.
Total websites

Market share

Load Balancers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Application Request Routing is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, while Envoy is more popular in Germany, Canada, and Japan.
United States
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Brazil
Australia
Germany
Canada
Sweden
Norway
Japan

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Application Request Routing is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Envoy is more commonly used on online shopping, travel, and Internet services sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Finance/Banking
Travel
Internet Services
Health
Software/Hardware
Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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#1,396
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#12
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