# AWS Elastic Load Balancing alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 185 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where AWS Elastic Load Balancing holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/aws-elastic-load-balancing/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- HAProxy: 31
- F5 BIG-IP: 17
- NGINX: 16
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: 14
- AWS Application Load Balancer: 7
- F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: 7

## Load balancers

**Small business**: 57 of 84 answers did not name AWS Elastic Load Balancing (AWS Elastic Load Balancing is #2 of 14 at 14%).

- HAProxy: first choice in 10 of those 57
- NGINX: first choice in 8 of those 57
- Cloudflare Load Balancing: first choice in 6 of those 57
- AWS Application Load Balancer: first choice in 4 of those 57
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 4 of those 57
- Caddy: first choice in 2 of those 57
- HAProxy Community Edition: first choice in 2 of those 57
- Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 2 of those 57

**Mid-market**: 60 of 84 answers did not name AWS Elastic Load Balancing (AWS Elastic Load Balancing is #5 of 16 at 4%).

- HAProxy: first choice in 11 of those 60
- Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 5 of those 60
- NGINX: first choice in 5 of those 60
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 5 of those 60
- AWS Application Load Balancer: first choice in 2 of those 60
- A10 Thunder ADC: first choice in 1 of those 60
- Application Load Balancer: first choice in 1 of those 60
- Azure Load Balancer: first choice in 1 of those 60

**Enterprise**: 68 of 84 answers did not name AWS Elastic Load Balancing (AWS Elastic Load Balancing is #5 of 16 at 5%).

- F5 BIG-IP: first choice in 17 of those 68
- HAProxy: first choice in 10 of those 68
- F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: first choice in 7 of those 68
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 5 of those 68
- F5 BIG-IP LTM: first choice in 3 of those 68
- NGINX: first choice in 3 of those 68
- Application Load Balancer: first choice in 2 of those 68
- AWS Application Load Balancer: first choice in 1 of those 68

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