This product has charges associated with it for AWS support & maintenance. HAProxy Community on Ubuntu 24.04. high-performance TCP/HTTP load balancer and proxy server that helps distribute traffic across multiple servers.
This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for support & maintenance.
HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is a high-performance TCP/HTTP load balancer and proxy server that helps distribute traffic across multiple backend servers. It improves reliability, uptime, and ensures that your web application can handle large volumes of traffic efficiently. HAProxy is widely used for load balancing, proxying, and enhancing the scalability of web-based applications.
HAProxy Features
High Availability: Ensures uptime by automatically directing traffic to healthy servers.
Load Balancing: Distributes incoming traffic evenly across multiple servers for optimized performance.
SSL Termination: Decrypts SSL traffic to offload processing from backend servers.
Advanced Routing: Supports Layer 4 (TCP) and Layer 7 (HTTP) routing to control how traffic is distributed.
Scalability: Scales web applications by balancing traffic between multiple servers, helping with horizontal scaling.
Health Checks: Automatically checks the status of backend servers and only directs traffic to those that are healthy.
Security Features: Includes support for TLS/SSL, rate limiting, and DDoS protection mechanisms.
Performance Optimization: Offers features such as HTTP compression, caching, and connection pooling to improve application performance.
Extensive Logging and Monitoring: Provides detailed logs and metrics for traffic, server health, and performance.
Flexible Configuration: HAProxys configuration is highly customizable to meet the needs of complex architectures.
HAProxy Use Cases
Distributing incoming web traffic across multiple backend servers to ensure even load distribution.
Enabling high availability by redirecting traffic to healthy servers in case of failures.
SSL termination for secure web traffic management and offloading SSL decryption to the proxy server.
Routing traffic based on rules, such as URL patterns or request headers, to different services.
Acting as a reverse proxy to provide secure, controlled access to internal services.
Implementing HTTP caching, compression, and web acceleration to improve performance.
Disclaimer: HAProxy® is a registered trademark of HAProxy Technologies LLC. HAProxy Community Edition is released under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2). The license comes with a "no warranty" clause, meaning the software is provided "as-is" without any guarantees or liability for issues that may arise.
Highlights
SSL Termination: Decrypts SSL traffic to offload processing from backend servers.
Security Features: Includes support for TLS/SSL, rate limiting, and DDoS protection mechanisms.
Flexible Configuration: HAProxys configuration is highly customizable to meet the needs of complex architectures.
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You pay by the hour for HAProxy running on Ubuntu 24.04, with vendor support included. Pricing is tied to the AWS EC2 instance type you choose. Each dimension maps to one instance size, so your rate scales with the compute, memory, and network capacity that instance provides. Smaller general-purpose types like t3 and m5 sit at the low end. Larger memory-optimized (r-series), compute-optimized (c-series), high-memory (u-series), and bare-metal options carry higher hourly rates. You only pay while an instance runs, and you select the size that fits your load-balancing traffic needs.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
What do I actually get for the hourly rate on each instance type?
You get HAProxy Community Edition preinstalled on Ubuntu 24.04, plus vendor support. HAProxy is a TCP/HTTP load balancer that spreads traffic across backend servers. The hourly rate covers the software and support running on the AWS EC2 instance size you pick. AWS charges the underlying compute separately.
Am I charged the hourly software rate when the instance is stopped?
The software rate meters only while the instance runs. A fully stopped instance does not accrue hourly software charges. Note that stopped instances may still incur AWS storage fees for attached volumes, which are billed by AWS separately from this listing.
How do I move between instance types if my traffic grows or shrinks?
Each dimension bills one instance size at its own hourly rate. To change size, you stop the instance and relaunch on a different type, then billing follows the new rate. There is no automatic tier upgrade. You pick and switch sizes manually based on your load-balancing needs.
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Version release notes
New OS packages, simply run 'sudo apt-get update' to install the latest OS packages.
Additional details
Usage instructions
Login via SSH into the EC2 instance with username: ubuntu
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