🆚 AWS Elastic Load Balancer vs. Envoy

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 AWS Elastic Load Balancer is three times more popular than Envoy.
🌎 AWS Elastic Load Balancer is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Envoy is more popular in the Netherlands, Norway, and China.

AWS Elastic Load Balancer

Envoy

Type

Load balancer

About

AWS Elastic Load Balancer automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses.

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

Seattle, Washington, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

aws.amazon.com

envoyproxy.io #121,897

Pricing

Free version ✔️

$0.0225 per Application Load Balancer-hour

$0.008 per LCU-hour

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

AWS Elastic Load Balancer is 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.

AWS Elastic Load Balancer is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom, while Envoy is more popular in the Netherlands, Norway, and China.

United States

Japan

United Kingdom

Germany

Brazil

Australia

Netherlands

Canada

France

India

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Korea in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Ireland in the Load Balancers category.

🥈 Second most popular in China in the Load Balancers category.
🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Load Balancers category.
🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the Load Balancers category.
🥉 Third most popular in Israel in the Load Balancers category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Mexico in the Load Balancers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

AWS Elastic Load Balancer is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Envoy is more commonly used on real estate sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Travel

Finance/Banking

General News

Software/Hardware

Entertainment