🆚 AWS Elastic Load Balancer vs. F5 BIG-IP

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 AWS Elastic Load Balancer is twice as popular as F5 BIG-IP.
🌎 AWS Elastic Load Balancer is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 F5 BIG-IP is more popular in Germany, Canada, and Belgium.

AWS Elastic Load Balancer

F5 BIG-IP

Type

Load balancer

About

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

F5 BIG-IP is an enterprise-grade application delivery controller and full reverse proxy platform for managing, securing, and optimizing web and API traffic.

It offers programmable Layer 4-7 load balancing with advanced health checks, web application firewall protection against OWASP Top 10 threats, DDoS mitigation, and access control and authentication options including Active Directory/LDAP/RADIUS, and single sign-on.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

aws.amazon.com

f5.com #2,097

Pricing

Free version ✔️

$0.0225 per Application Load Balancer-hour

$0.008 per LCU-hour

Free version ❌Free 30-day trial

$3,200+/year

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

AWS Elastic Load Balancer is 2 times more popular than F5 BIG-IP.

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 F5 BIG-IP is more popular in Germany, Canada, and Belgium.

United States

Japan

United Kingdom

Germany

Australia

Canada

France

Brazil

Spain

Italy

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 Chile in the Load Balancers category.

🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Israel in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Arab Emirates 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 education and reference, while F5 BIG-IP is more commonly used on finance and banking, government and military, and public information sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Finance/Banking

Online Shopping

Internet Services

Health

Government/Military

Travel

Software/Hardware