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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing vs Kemp LoadMaster comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
8th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Kemp LoadMaster
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
9th
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) category, the mindshare of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is 1.4%, down from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Kemp LoadMaster is 7.5%, up from 7.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
 

Featured Reviews

Mohd Farhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Manage complex traffic routing with ease and ensure system availability
The ELB would benefit from allowing deployment in a single availability zone for test servers to avoid unnecessary costs. Additionally, the ability to directly block specific IP addresses without additional service integration would be beneficial. Furthermore, sometimes ALB has a delay in recognizing the need to scale the system based on CloudWatch metrics, which could use improvement.
PeterForster - PeerSpot reviewer
A highly stable and scalable load-balancing software that offers great technical support
My company is really happy with Kemp LoadMaster as a product. My company is also happy with the support we receive from Kemp LoadMaster. I want Kemp LoadMaster to provide users with better reporting capabilities in relation to TCP packets. In general, the connections that are present in the system require improvement. Feature-wise, Kemp LoadMaster has everything that our company's customers require. Kemp LoadMaster also has features that have supported our company's past projects.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The Elastic Load Balancer facilitates the distribution of incoming application traffic, which directs requests to various servers, preventing overload on a single instance."
"The most valuable feature is the Lambda function due to its utility with serverless technology."
"The network load balancer is really fast."
"Customer support is good."
"The solution is very well integrated into Amazon's services."
"It has very good features. It is very configurable. Security with TLS, et cetera is also very easy."
"It is a very scalable solution in which you can add more servers instantly."
"Amazon Elastic Load Balancing transfers the data securely from servers to users and splits the traffic based on peak times."
"Great web balancing and remote access balancing."
"The most valuable features are synchronizing email with mobile devices and synchronizing with Outlook."
"It is an easy-to-use, user-friendly interface, and you can set up a new VIP in a couple of minutes."
"The solution is easy to configure when changing the load balancing method to Round Robin or least connection."
"The feature that allows us to easily disconnect a server when we need and bring back online is the most valuable. It's a click of a button. This allows us to keep all systems up. We can then run updates, perform reboots whatever we need to one of the servers without taking production down."
"Security is considered the most effective feature in Kemp LoadMaster."
"The most valuable feature that I found is the load balancing feature, it is the core function of the product."
"It helps with efficiency and reactivity, in case of assistance needs."
 

Cons

"I do not have any notes for improvements."
"One issue that we faced with ALB was that leaf-level certificate validation was not happening. It is not that user-friendly in that aspect."
"The ELB would benefit from allowing deployment in a single availability zone for test servers to avoid unnecessary costs."
"They could improve provisioning speed."
"It would be good if we had a product that integrates well with third-party vendors. Some of our customers want a multi-cloud solution. They don't want to be tied up to or be in just one cloud."
"The latency compared to the network load balancer could be improved."
"Improvement is needed in the integration with Terraform, especially in writing scripts for creating load balancers and target groups."
"The routing policies and waiting policies could be improved for better performance."
"If you want logging for SMTP traffic, you have to enable ESP, which requires you to define allowed IP addresses. That’s irritating, to say the least."
"Certificate installations could be simplified and modernized, and allowed to be monitored for expirations/issues."
"Some documentation is out of date versus the new version, and things have been moved​."
"It would be much easier to have the management interface directly integrate with the Kemp Support library, allowing you to choose the desired template from the online catalog to then directly download to the LoadMaster."
"The cost of the GEO upgrade is not cost-prohibitive but it's something that would be a nice add-in, out of the box."
"To make it a perfect ten out of ten it would need better connection logging. If there is an active connection, that there is better logging. It should also have better management monitoring tools."
"I would like to see more automation and control of overactive and inactive resources. If I could schedule these around our updates then it would be all automated. I would like to set up an automated script to coincide with the scripts I use to update resources and servers."
"In my opinion, the layer seven loads balancing that we're mainly using for web servers, doesn't seem to pick up when there are issues at the application level."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution's pricing is low and I rate it a nine out of ten."
"The solution is expensive."
"The solution's pricing is $30 per month."
"The product is not cheap."
"I have no issues with the tool's pricing."
"There is a yearly license."
"The licensing fees are based on the number of connections one uses. It is a free tool for a certain amount of connections, which runs into thousands, and after that, there is a certain amount to be paid to Amazon."
"The cost for using the application load balancer is approximately $18 to $21 per month."
"It has a great price for the solution they offer."
"At $2,500 USD, this is absolutely a fantastic buy for the money!"
"​I have control on the licensing and all the prices since I work for a partner.​"
"It has a very attractive ratio of price/performance."
"It is well-priced and licensing is very flexible."
"Nowadays, going with the virtual appliance is the easiest way and the cost is reasonable."
"Pricing for the perpetual licensing was fair to us for the features and ease of use we received."
"The pricing is alright and we pay a monthly licensing fee"
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
34%
Computer Software Company
23%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Government
4%
Educational Organization
40%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
5%
Government
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon Elastic Load Balancing?
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing transfers the data securely from servers to users and splits the traffic based on peak times.
What needs improvement with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing?
Although I haven't faced any issues, improvements could involve making Amazon Elastic Load Balancing a global service, as currently, it is region-specific. Simplifying components required for load ...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Elastic Load Balancing?
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing ( /products/amazon-elastic-load-balancing-reviews ) helps me efficiently distribute incoming application or network traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2...
What do you like most about Kemp LoadMaster?
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten...The initial setup of Kemp LoadMaster is very simple.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kemp LoadMaster?
LoadMaster is cheaper than some other solutions. It has a perpetual license, so it's a one-time cost.
What needs improvement with Kemp LoadMaster?
There are some challenges with updates on certain models that don't have a few features. The support team often takes a lot of time to provide resolutions for issues. Also, I could see more capabil...
 

Also Known As

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LoadMaster Load Balancer
 

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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Kent County Council, KEMP, SMA Solar Technology AG, RT€ Player , Victrix (Quebec, Canada), Texas A&M, Macmillan Cancer Support, Cisco, Austin Bank
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