# AWS Classic Load Balancer: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 3 judge labels across 1 category by 3 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/aws-classic-load-balancer

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Load balancers](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/load-balancers/index.md) | 0% | 106 | 100% | 3 |

## And against it

- "avoid choosing it for new systems unless you have a specific compatibility reason" (GPT-6 Luna, Load balancers)
- "Effectively deprecated... Why avoid: Lacks modern features" (Kimi K2, Load balancers)
- "Why avoid: AWS has effectively phased out CLB" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Load balancers)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named AWS Classic Load Balancer, from 4 of the 4 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- docs.aws.amazon.com: 3 (its own site)
- aws.amazon.com: 2 (its own site)
- a10networks.com: 1
- aws.github.io: 1
- capterra.com: 1
- cloudburn.io: 1
- csoonline.com: 1
- cystack.net: 1
- dev.to: 1
- divio.com: 1

### Pages cited

- http://haproxy.org/: 1
- https://a10networks.com/resources/reports/the-state-of-application-load-balancing-in-2025: 1
- https://a10networks.com/wp-content/uploads/A10-EB-The-State-of-Application-Load-Balancing-in-2025.pdf: 1
- https://aws.amazon.com/ar/elasticloadbalancing/faqs: 1
- https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/faqs: 1
- https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/reviews/reviews-list/prodview-pl3bajfqqk5qq: 1
- https://aws.github.io/aws-networking-best-practices/application-networking/load-balancing: 1
- https://capterra.com/load-balancing-software: 1

## In its own words

What AWS Classic Load Balancer's own pages state, read 2026-10-06. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: create an internal load balancer in your VPC and place your non-internet-facing instances behind the internal load balancer (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/internal-elastic-load-balancers)
- For: customers who need to load balance between tiers of an application (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/internal-elastic-load-balancers)
- Hosting: Virtual Private Cloud

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.