⚡ Load Balancers in the United Arab Emirates

A load balancer is a software program or device that distributes network traffic across a number of "backend" servers, providing improved scaling and network resilience.

The United Arab Emirates is a Western Asian country with a population of over 10 million people.

According to our statistics, load balancers are used on 10.3% of websites from the United Arab Emirates.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top load balancers in the United Arab Emirates in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is F5 BIG-IP with a share of 23.3%, followed by AWS Elastic Load Balancer with 16.6% and Google Cloud Load Balancer with 16.2%.

F5 BIG-IP 23.3%
AWS Elastic Load Balancer 16.6%
Google Cloud Load Balancer 16.2%
Application Request Routing 13.2%
Varnish 11.9%
Sucuri CloudProxy 9.1%
Azure Application Gateway 8.2%
Envoy 6.7%
Azure Front Door 4.4%
Barracuda Load Balancer ADC 1.1%
Ivanti vADC 0.7%
Kong Gateway 0.6%
NetScaler 0.6%
Heroku Vegur 0.4%
Apache Traffic Server 0.2%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top load balancers that are more popular in the United Arab Emirates than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

✨ Best Load Balancers

Below is a more detailed list of 16 load balancers used on sites from the United Arab Emirates, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	F5 BIG-IP Seattle, Washington, United States An enterprise-grade application delivery controller and full reverse proxy platform for managing, securing, and optimizing web and API traffic. $3,200+/year	23.3%
2	AWS Elastic Load Balancer Seattle, Washington, United States Automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses. Free$$$	16.6%
3	Google Cloud Load Balancer Mountain View, California, United States Distributes user traffic across virtual machine instances in the same region.	16.2%
4	Application Request Routing Redmond, Washington, United States A module for Internet Information Server that can load-balance between multiple servers in a server farm.	13.2%
5	Varnish Stockholm, Sweden An open-source web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. FreeOpen source$1,500+/year	11.9%
6	Sucuri CloudProxy Tempe, Arizona, United States A website application firewall that stops bad actors, speeds up load times, and increases website availability.	9.1%
7	Azure Application Gateway Redmond, Washington, United States A managed web traffic load balancer and full reverse proxy that enables scalable, highly available, and secure web application delivery on Azure. $0.0255+/hour	8.2%
8	Envoy San Francisco, California, United States A high-performance, open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures. FreeOpen source	6.7%
9	Azure Front Door Redmond, Washington, United States A cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities. $35+/month	4.4%
10	Barracuda Load Balancer ADC Campbell, California, United States A unified high-performance platform that helps organizations achieve their availability, acceleration, application control, and application security objectives. $7,000+/year	1.1%
11	Ivanti vADC South Jordan, Utah, United States A software-based application delivery controller solution that delivers applications with predictable performance and strong multi-layered security and includes Virtual Traffic Manager, Services Director and Web Application Firewall. $$$	0.7%
12	Kong Gateway San Francisco, California, United States An API gateway that manages, secures, and routes API traffic using a cloud-native, platform-agnostic architecture. FreeOpen source$105+/month	0.6%
13	NetScaler Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States An application delivery and security platform that provides high-performance load balancing, application delivery, and security solutions. $11,000+/year	0.6%
14	Heroku Vegur San Francisco, California, United States Open-source proxy and load balancing software. FreeOpen source	0.4%
15	Apache Traffic Server Wilmington, Delaware, United States A fast, scalable, and extensible web proxy cache that improves performance by caching frequently accessed information at the edge of the network. FreeOpen source	0.2%
16	Squid Westminster, Colorado, United States A caching proxy for the web that supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. FreeOpen source	0.1%

👉 See Also

🌎 Load Balancers in other countries
- Kuwait
- Oman
- Qatar

Data is based on the analysis of 8,313 websites from the United Arab Emirates.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.