⚡ Load Balancers in Kenya

Load balancers are software components or network devices that distribute incoming traffic across multiple backend servers, improving application availability, scalability, and fault tolerance by preventing any single server from becoming a bottleneck.

Kenya is an East African country with a population of over 55 million people.

According to our statistics, load balancers are detected on 4.1% of websites from Kenya.

Statistics based on 2K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Google Cloud Load Balancing with an impressive share of 30.9%, followed by Sucuri CloudProxy with 18.2% and Application Request Routing with 12.7%.

Google Cloud Load Balancing 30.9%
Sucuri CloudProxy 18.2%
Application Request Routing 12.7%
Varnish 10.9%
Azure Front Door 8.2%
AWS Elastic Load Balancer 7.3%
Envoy 4.5%
F5 BIG-IP 4.5%
Google Front End 4.5%
Azure Application Gateway 1.8%
HAProxy 0.9%
Istio 0.9%
Kong Gateway 0.9%
Ivanti vADC 0.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

✨ Best Load Balancers

Below is a more detailed list of 15 load balancers used on sites from Kenya, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Google Cloud Load Balancing Mountain View, California, United States A managed load balancing service that distributes application traffic across virtual machines and containers on Google Cloud. $0.025+/unit/hour	30.9%
2	Sucuri CloudProxy Tempe, Arizona, United States A website application firewall that stops bad actors, speeds up load times, and increases website availability.	18.2%
3	Application Request Routing Redmond, Washington, United States A module for Internet Information Server that can load-balance between multiple servers in a server farm.	12.7%
4	Varnish Stockholm, Sweden An open-source HTTP accelerator and reverse caching proxy that caches content from web servers to reduce load times, and supports native TLS termination and Kubernetes deployments. FreeOpen source$$$	10.9%
5	Azure Front Door Redmond, Washington, United States A cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities. $35+/month	8.2%
6	AWS Elastic Load Balancer Seattle, Washington, United States AWS Elastic Load Balancer automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses. Free$$$	7.3%
7	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	4.5%
8	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	4.5%
9	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States Google's globally distributed reverse proxy that accepts client connections at the network edge and routes requests to Google services. $$$	4.5%
10	Azure Application Gateway Redmond, Washington, United States A managed web traffic load balancer and full reverse proxy that enables scalable, highly available, and secure web application delivery on Azure. $0.0255+/hour	1.8%
11	HAProxy Newton, Massachusetts, United States An open-source load balancer and reverse proxy for TCP and HTTP-based applications. FreeOpen source$$$	0.9%
12	Istio San Francisco, California, United States An open-source service mesh that secures, connects, and monitors services in Kubernetes, virtual machines, and multi-cloud environments. FreeOpen source	0.9%
13	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	0.9%
14	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. $$$	0.9%
15	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	0.9%

👉 See Also

🌎 Load Balancers in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

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 2,691 websites from Kenya.
We currently track the presence of 23 load balancers across the web.
Of these, 15 were detected on websites from Kenya.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.