⚡ Load Balancers in Portugal

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.

Portugal is a Southern European country with a population of around 10.3 million people.

According to our statistics, load balancers are used on 5.2% of websites from Portugal.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Google Cloud Load Balancer with a share of 26.3%, followed by Varnish with 20.2% and AWS Elastic Load Balancer with 16.6%.

🚀 Highlights

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

✨ Best Load Balancers

Below is a more detailed list of 13 load balancers used on sites from Portugal, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Google Cloud Load Balancer Mountain View, California, United States Distributes user traffic across virtual machine instances in the same region.	26.3%
2	Varnish Stockholm, Sweden An open-source web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. FreeOpen source$1,500+/year	20.2%
3	AWS Elastic Load Balancer Seattle, Washington, United States Automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses. Free$$$	16.6%
4	Application Request Routing Redmond, Washington, United States A module for Internet Information Server that can load-balance between multiple servers in a server farm.	11.6%
5	F5 BIG-IP Seattle, Washington, United States An enterprise-grade application delivery controller and full reverse proxy platform for managing, securing, and optimizing web and API traffic. $3,200+/year	10.3%
6	Envoy San Francisco, California, United States A high-performance, open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures. FreeOpen source	6.1%
7	Azure Application Gateway Redmond, Washington, United States A managed web traffic load balancer and full reverse proxy that enables scalable, highly available, and secure web application delivery on Azure. $0.0255+/hour	6%
8	Azure Front Door Redmond, Washington, United States A cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities. $35+/month	4.4%
9	Heroku Vegur San Francisco, California, United States Open-source proxy and load balancing software. FreeOpen source	1.7%
10	HAProxy Newton, Massachusetts, United States A high-performance reverse proxy and load balancer for TCP- and HTTP-based applications. FreeOpen source$$$	1.2%
11	Sucuri CloudProxy Tempe, Arizona, United States A website application firewall that stops bad actors, speeds up load times, and increases website availability.	1%
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	0.4%
13	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	0.4%

👉 See Also

🌎 Load Balancers in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 14,630 websites from Portugal.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.