A10 Thunder ADC
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AWS Elastic Load Balancing
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| Fact | A10 Thunder ADC | AWS Elastic Load Balancing |
|---|---|---|
| Integrations | The product page names Terraform and Ansible for CI/CD integration, TKC and HashiCorp NIA with Consul for Kubernetes service discovery, and Prometheus/Grafana for monitoring. | Documented integrations include EC2, EC2 Auto Scaling, ACM, CloudWatch, ECS, Global Accelerator, Route 53 and AWS WAF. |
| Kubernetes | Service discovery in Kubernetes environments is supported through Thunder Kubernetes Connector or third-party tools such as HashiCorp NIA with Consul. | The features page lists Kubernetes Controller support, including direct-to-pod routing for Application Load Balancers and fully private EKS cluster support for Application and Network Load Balancers. |
| Monitoring | The product page describes Prometheus and Grafana integration using a built-in Prometheus exporter for visibility, event monitoring, and alerting. | AWS advertises real-time monitoring of application health and performance for bottleneck detection and SLA tracking. |
| Purpose | Thunder ADC is an application delivery controller and Layer 4–7 load balancer designed to protect critical applications, maintain server availability, and accelerate content delivery. | Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets and virtual appliances in one or more Availability Zones. |
| Security | The product includes web and DNS firewall capabilities, single sign-on, DDoS protection, and support for advanced encryption including PFS and ECC. | ELB supports SSL/TLS termination, certificate management, and client certificate authentication. |
A10 Thunder ADC plans
- Thunder ADCPriced on request
AWS Elastic Load Balancing plans
- AWS Free TierFree
- Pay-as-you-go — Application Load Balancer—
- Pay-as-you-go — Classic Load Balancer—
- Pay-as-you-go — Gateway Load Balancer—
- Pay-as-you-go — Network Load Balancer—
Pick A10 Thunder ADC if…
It suits organizations from SMBs and large enterprises to service providers and cloud operators that need application delivery, load balancing, and security features. Teams using varied deployment models or automation integrations may also find its listed options relevant.
Pick AWS Elastic Load Balancing if…
It suits teams distributing traffic across targets in AWS or on-premises environments, with load balancer types for HTTP, transport protocols, virtual appliances, and EC2-Classic applications. Kubernetes users may also find the listed controller support relevant.