🆚 Envoy vs. Google Cloud Load Balancer

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Load balancer
Load balancer

About

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.

Google Cloud Load Balancer distributes user traffic across virtual machine instances in the same region.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Load Balancers › Rank #6
Load Balancers › Rank #2
Caching › Rank #11

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Google Cloud 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.

Google Cloud Load Balancer is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while Envoy is more popular in the Netherlands, China, and Russia.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Germany
Brazil
Canada
France
British Virgin Islands
Netherlands
Australia

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Google Cloud 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 and auctions and classifieds sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Travel
Sports
General News
Blogs/Wiki

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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