Latest post
Multi-AZ resilience: Why the recent AWS outage shows you need it
Don't wait for the next outage to expose gaps in your critical architecture...
Back to all posts
AWS / Azure / GCP
Maximize uptime and architectural agility in AWS, Azure, and GCP. Compare platform-agnostic vs. cloud-native load balancers, and master multi-AZ resilience, auto-scaling, and advanced hybrid and multi-cloud deployment strategies.
Ben Cabot
Load Balancing Microsoft Session Host in Azure
The Loadbalancer.org Feedback Agent is installed on the Session Host servers to provide real time performance stats to enable optimum load distribution...
Microsoft
Application Management
AWS / Azure / GCP
Imannuel Graham
How do you combine AWS Auto Scaling with a proper load balancer?
The Loadbalancer.org appliance automatically detects changes in your auto-scaling groups, with zero configuration and zero downtime...
AWS / Azure / GCP
How-tos
Performance
Jake Borman
Load Balancing Web Servers with OWASP Top 10 WAF in Azure
In the Azure Management Portal, select the Virtual Machines option, click on the newly deployed Load Balancer VM, click on Network interfaces and then select the network interface attached to the load balancer, then click IP configurations and ensure that IP forwarding is Enabled...
Application Management
WAF
AWS / Azure / GCP
Roman Humphreys
Load Balancing Apache Web Servers with OWASP Top 10 WAF in Azure
The WAF addresses the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and is very quick and simple to deploy...
Security
Microsoft
WAF
Aaron West
Layer 4 Direct Routing (LVS-DR) and Layer 4 TUN (LVS-TUN) in AWS
LVS-DR and LVS-TUN are both forms of Direct Server Return where the load balancer only has to deal with one half of the connection...
Direct Server Return
Performance
How-tos
Annu Sroa
Loadbalancer.org achieves Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Technology Partner Status
We're proud to announce that we have achieved Advanced Technology Partner status with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the leading platform for public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Comparisons
Imannuel Graham
Load Balancing Nginx Web Servers with OWASP Top 10 WAF in Azure
SSL offload is handled by STunnel, while HAProxy handles back-end server re-encryption...
WAF
Application Management
AWS / Azure / GCP
Dave Saunders
IAM what I am
For several years, if an instance was launched in AWS and during the initial configuration an IAM role was not defined, the only option available was to stop/terminate the instance and launch another, however, this has now changed!..
AWS / Azure / GCP
How-tos
Ben Cabot
Transparent HAProxy in Azure using TProxy
HAProxy is an excellent choice if you need layer 7 functionality, but its a full reverse-proxy, so the application thinks that all of the traffic is coming from HAProxys IP - rather than the clients...
Open source
AWS / Azure / GCP
HAProxy
Ben Cabot
Integrating your load balancer with auto scaling groups in EC2 (Amazon AWS)
The Loadbalancer.org for AWS appliance will monitor auto scaling groups, update configs based on auto scaling events and add/remove servers...
AWS / Azure / GCP
How-tos
Rob Cooper
Load balancing Microsoft Remote Desktop Services in AWS
Using the flexibility of both AWS and our Enterprise AWS appliance, it's possible to configure a secure and robust load balanced Remote Desktop Services deployment to suit a range of requirements...
Application Management
Microsoft
AWS / Azure / GCP
Ben Cabot
Transparent Load balancing with HAProxy on Amazon EC2
One of our favorite methods of load balancing is using Layer 4 DR because it is transparent and fast. Unfortunately, because of Amazon's infrastructure, this is not possible in EC2 so we need to use another method which means we are left with layer 4 NAT and transparent HAproxy using TProxy...
Open source
HAProxy
AWS / Azure / GCP