🆚 Google Cloud Load Balancing vs. Varnish

📈 Varnish is noticeably more popular than Google Cloud Load Balancing.
🌎 Varnish is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
🌎 Google Cloud Load Balancing is more popular in Japan, Brazil, and Australia.

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Google Cloud Load Balancing

Varnish

Type

Load balancer

Caching

About

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.

Varnish Cache is an open-source web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

Stockholm, Sweden

Website

cloud.google.com

varnish-cache.org #547,741

Pricing

Free version ❌

Forwarding rules First 5 $0.025/unit/hour
Additional $0.01/rule/hour

Inbound data $0.008+/GB

Outbound data $0.008+/GB

Free version ✔️ Open source

Varnish Pro $1,500+/year

Varnish Enterprise Custom

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Varnish caching is 1.5 times more popular than Google Cloud Load Balancing.

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 Google Cloud Load Balancing is more popular in Japan, Brazil, and Australia.

United States

United Kingdom

France

Germany

Japan

Sweden

Netherlands

Denmark

Canada

Italy

Awards

🥇 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.

🥇 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 than Google Cloud Load Balancing in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Online Shopping

Entertainment

General News

Blogs/Wiki

Sports

Internet Services

Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#17

#86

#93

#98

Name

Rank

#23

#25

#34

#42

#44