🆚 AWS Elastic Load Balancer vs. Varnish

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

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

Website

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

Load Balancers › Rank #3
Load Balancers › Rank #1
Caching › Rank #4

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

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.

Name
Rank
dmm.co.jp
#149
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Name
Rank
#12
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See also

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