🆚 Envoy vs. Google Cloud Load Balancing
- 📈 Google Cloud Load Balancing is three times more popular than Envoy.
- 🌎 Google Cloud Load Balancing is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- 🌍 Envoy is more popular in the Netherlands, China, and Russia.
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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 Balancing is a managed load balancing service that distributes application traffic across virtual machines and containers on 
Google Cloud.
It supports global and regional load balancing, a single anycast IP address for worldwide deployments, automatic scaling without pre-warming, integration with Cloud CDN and Cloud Armor, and uses 
Envoy and Google Front End proxies to route and manage traffic.
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Awards
- 🥈 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.
- 🥇 Most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Israel in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Mexico in the Load Balancers category.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,602,840 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
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