🆚 AWS Elastic Load Balancer vs. Varnish
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Varnish is twice as popular as AWS Elastic Load Balancer.
- 🌎 Varnish is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
- 🌎 AWS Elastic Load Balancer is more popular in Japan, Australia, and Brazil.
Type
Load balancer
Caching solution
About
AWS Elastic Load Balancer automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses.
Varnish Cache is an open-source web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy.
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington, United States
Stockholm, Sweden
Pricing
Free version ✔️
$0.0225 per Application Load Balancer-hour
$0.008 per LCU-hour
Free version ✔️Open source
Varnish Pro$1,500+/year
Varnish EnterpriseCustom
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Varnish caching solution is 1.7 times more popular than AWS Elastic Load Balancer.
Total websites
Market share
Load Balancers
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Varnish is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, while AWS Elastic Load Balancer is more popular in Japan, Australia, and Brazil.
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Netherlands
Sweden
Denmark
Italy
Norway
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.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Denmark in the Load Balancers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Varnish is more popular among sites focused on education and reference, online shopping, and general news, while AWS Elastic Load Balancer is more commonly used on business, marketing and merchandising, and finance and banking sites.
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
General News
Entertainment
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
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