AWS Elastic Load Balancing
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What both publish
| Fact | AWS Elastic Load Balancing | PureLB |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring | AWS advertises real-time monitoring of application health and performance for bottleneck detection and SLA tracking. | PureLB exposes Prometheus metrics for the allocator and node agent and documents Prometheus Operator ServiceMonitors, alert rules, and a Grafana dashboard. |
| Purpose | Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets and virtual appliances in one or more Availability Zones. | PureLB provides Kubernetes LoadBalancer services for bare-metal deployments by allocating IP addresses from configured pools and announcing them through Linux networking or optional BGP. |
| Security | ELB supports SSL/TLS termination, certificate management, and client certificate authentication. | The allocator runs as non-root UID 65534 with a read-only filesystem, while the node agent and k8gobgp run as root with networking capabilities and host networking. |
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—
PureLB 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 PureLB if…
PureLB is for operators running Kubernetes on bare-metal Linux who need external reachability for LoadBalancer services. It is relevant if you need local or BGP-announced address pools and can meet its cluster requirements.