AWS Elastic Load Balancing
AWS Elastic Load Balancing is a load balancer from AWS for cloud deployments, with ALB and NLB options · aws.amazon.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
HAProxy is first at 19%.
HAProxy is first at 32%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
F5 BIG-IP is first at 23%.
Why models recommend it
“Fully in AWS/Azure/GCP: Stick to native cloud load balancers (AWS ALB/NLB, Azure ALB, GCP Cloud LB). It minimizes overhead”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“1 | AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB/GWLB) | Cloud-native (AWS) | AWS-centric apps, microservices, containers”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · first choice
“often recommended as the top choice for small businesses because it offers a free tier”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Cloud-Native: AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer/Application Gateway, Google Cloud Load Balancing—easy to start, scales automatically, low ops burden.”Grok 4.20 · Scale-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Internet-facing AWS ALB/NLB or similar cloud LBs when they should be internal: A very common misconfiguration exposes backend services publicly.”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“may be overkill unless you're already using those cloud platforms”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Companies fully committed to AWS (but creates vendor lock-in)”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Direct question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as AWS Elastic Load Balancing, over the 104 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 92 | 26 | Compare → | |
| 89 | 14 | Compare → | |
| 58 | 10 | View → | |
| 56 | 0 | View → | |
| 48 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 43 | 2 | View → | |
| 42 | 0 | View → | |
| 35 | 2 | View → | |
| 30 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of AWS Elastic Load Balancing →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on AWS Elastic Load Balancing's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- organizations
- Integrations
- 9
- Customers named
- Galaxy Zoo
- Also from AWS
- AWS ACM, AWS ALB/ELB, AWS ALB/NLB, AWS API Gateway HTTP APIs, AWS Amazon Aurora, AWS App Runner and 84 more
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 83 of the 104 answers that named AWS Elastic Load Balancing and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
187 of the 236 domain citations in answers naming AWS Elastic Load Balancing came from a third party's page. Thirty were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |