AWS Elastic Load Balancing
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What both publish
| Fact | AWS Elastic Load Balancing | kube-vip |
|---|---|---|
| Integrations | Documented integrations include EC2, EC2 Auto Scaling, ACM, CloudWatch, ECS, Global Accelerator, Route 53 and AWS WAF. | The documentation describes a kube-vip cloud provider for assigning IP addresses to Kubernetes LoadBalancer Services and lists vendor API integrations. |
| Purpose | Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets and virtual appliances in one or more Availability Zones. | kube-vip provides a virtual IP and load balancer for Kubernetes control planes and Services of type LoadBalancer. |
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—
kube-vip plans
No prices published.
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.
Pick kube-vip if…
kube-vip is for teams operating self-hosted Kubernetes clusters on Linux, including bare-metal, on-premises, edge, and virtualized environments. It suits users seeking control plane virtual IPs or Layer 4 load balancing for LoadBalancer Services.