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The Load Balancer Enterprise ADC for AWS provides advanced Layer 4/7 load balancing, automatically distributing incoming application traffic across EC2 instances either in a single Availability Zone, or across multiple Zones. Traffic can be distributed on the internal Amazon network (reducing bandwidth costs), or to any accessible internet address.
Dual AZ mode enables an HA pair of load balancer instances to be split between different AZ's, further increasing system resilience. Full support for Service Discovery, including integration with AWS Auto Scaling which ensures that servers or containers are automatically added to the load balanced cluster as backend capacity is increased to meet inbound traffic demands.
Support for TCP and UDP enables load balancing of virtually any protocol. SSL termination and re-encryption - coupled with a built-in, OWASP top 10 compliant WAF - enables you to create a secure, robust interface for your infrastructure. URL re-writing / content switching can be used to direct traffic based on defined rules.
Advanced, customizable health checks ensure detection of unhealthy instances within a pool and automatically reroutes traffic to healthy instances. This great product comes fully-featured with a totally unrestricted license enabling all features and full scalability.
Highlights
- Advanced Layer 4/7 load balancing - with integrated Auto Scaling, GSLB, multi-AZ resilience, SSL/TLS offloading and OWASP top 10 compliant WAF. Full API support enables integration with automation platforms.
- Ease of use and extensive support - simple management interface, simplified and accelerated cloud migration, and unlimited 24/7 access to the Loadbalancer.org technical support services.
- Totally unrestricted freedom license - this product offers no feature restrictions. Our freedom license enables customers to move licenses between clouds and data centers at no additional cost - and with free migration assistance.
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
m5n.xlarge Recommended | $0.72 |
t3.micro | $0.20 |
m5n.16xlarge | $1.24 |
c5.2xlarge | $0.72 |
c5.24xlarge | $1.24 |
c5.12xlarge | $0.72 |
t3.medium | $0.30 |
m5n.24xlarge | $1.24 |
m5n.12xlarge | $1.24 |
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If you are unhappy with your Loadbalancer.org Load Balancer for any reason we will refund the software costs for up to 30 days prior to cancellation.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Security
- Linux Kernel: Mitigation for Dirty Frag and Frag- nesia (vulnerabilities fixed are not exploitable on our appliances).
- HSTS: Added granular control of subdomains & preload, and sensible defaults to avoid accidental lockouts.
New Features
- GSLB: Add support for wildcard subdomains.
- GSLB: Allow more than two parameters for the external health check.
- GSLB: Remove unnecessary case sensitivity for domain names.
- ADC Portal: Several enhancements to the adoption page, including support for token authentication.
Bug Fixes
- Networking: Prevent deletion of network interfaces if they are bound to existing services.
- System Overview: Fixed an issue where layer 4 servers would sometimes report an incorrect status.
- Command Line Interface: Fixed an issue with editing Floating IPs from the CLI.
- TProxy: Fixed an issue where restoring a backup might not activate Transparent Proxy settings.
- Monitoring: Updated the OS version to ensure it is reported correctly to external monitoring solutions.
- Cookies: Remove excessive warnings about matching cookie names.
- SSL: Fixed an issue with replicating Let's Encrypt certificates.
- Floating IPs: Fixed an issue where modifying multiple disabled Floating IPs could cause unexpected removal.
- Google Cloud Platform: Fixed a configuration issue that could disable STunnel on GCP.
- High Availability: Fixed an issue where certain complex passwords could prevent pairing.
- Policy-Based Routing (PBR): Fixed an issue with VLANs and bonded interfaces using local-only mode.
- ADC Portal: Removed unnecessary update checks and errors for external repositories.
- ADC Portal: Fixed several issues with the automatic update, availability, excessive logging and stability of the Shuttle & Gateway.
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Usage instructions
To access this product, use a browser to view the administration page at https://<instance IP address>:9443 replacing the <instance IP address> with the actual IP address of the running EC2 instance. Your username is 'loadbalancer' and the password is the instance ID. To access this product via the CLI, using your prefered SSH client you can authenticate using the username 'lbuser' and the SSH key specified in the AWS console during the deployment.
For full functionality, the load balancer should be launched with an IAM role configured. Please see our quick start guide (https://pdfs.loadbalancer.org/quickstartguideEntAWSv8.pdf ) for more information or launch using the cloud formation template.
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All Load Balancer Enterprise ADC for AWS Instances include unlimited 24/7 support via email, telephone and remote assistance
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AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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Customer reviews
Excellent and reliable product with fast support.
High availability design has simplified managing clustered servers and improved uptime
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for LoadBalancer Enterprise is for high availability, as we always have primary and secondary servers. When one is down, the second one is good to handle the load. Instead of providing two IPs or two DNS, we put a load balancer IP, and the load balancer will automatically switch over to either one. We also use it for traffic distribution, particularly for routing based on API hits.
What is most valuable?
LoadBalancer Enterprise offers two types of load balancers: application-based and traffic-based. This is the main feature, allowing it to route based on traffic and server. It always sends data to one server, and once that is down, it picks the second.
We rely more on server-based routing in our environment because we work with many servers for important tools such as Splunk, Cribl , and Dynatrace . We always have standby servers, so if the primary encounters an issue, we can easily route our traffic to the active secondary server in our active-passive scenario.
LoadBalancer Enterprise has a good user interface, making it easy to manage, and the failover functionality is also impressive. The product itself is very stable.
LoadBalancer Enterprise has positively impacted my organization by allowing me to manage my Splunk cluster indexers with 10 servers behind one load balancer. I don't need to remember all 10 IPs, and I can easily add new servers to the group managed by the load balancer.
This approach has reduced many errors. Previously, when a server went down, it took a long time until someone reported it. Now, we achieve about 99% availability across all servers thanks to the health check feature in the load balancer.
What needs improvement?
LoadBalancer Enterprise is a very stable product that meets our needs. If they could reduce the prices, it would be beneficial.
Documentation needs improvement because having information is essential for working with advanced configurations. Advanced features in AWS settings could also be better documented, and reporting and analytics could be made more advanced to offer better traffic insights.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using LoadBalancer Enterprise for almost six or seven years, as I use it in all the companies I work for.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
LoadBalancer Enterprise is mostly seamless; however, if both servers are down, we need maintenance. In 90% to 99% of cases, I can say it is seamless.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
LoadBalancer Enterprise is easy to scale, maintain, and modify, which makes adding or removing servers a simple process.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support is good; generally, we don't need much support since the product is stable, but they respond immediately when we do reach out. I rate customer support a 10.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We didn't use any other solutions prior to LoadBalancer Enterprise, although I was aware of F5, we decided against purchasing it.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I don't know about the pricing since I never personally purchased it; the setup cost is cheap and licensing is also reasonably priced.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Helpful 24/7 Support and a Straightforward, Easy-to-Use UI
UI is quite straightforward and easy to comprehend, even for an unexperienced user.
Loadbalancer ADC: Rock-Solid Reliability and Proactive Support Since 2013
A big Thanks to Edgar Ramos, Ramiro Hittaller and the entire LOadbalancer ADC support team for their professionalism.
best regards,
Moussa ACDQ IT Supervisor