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Amazon ALB

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Amazon Application Load Balancer (ALB) is a feature-rich load balancing service that operates at the application layer (Layer 7) of the OSI model. It goes beyond simple traffic distribution by offering content-based routing, which allows routing requests to different target groups based on the content of the request. ALB supports advanced features like host-based and path-based routing, HTTP/2 and WebSocket protocols, and integration with other AWS services like AWS WAF and AWS Certificate Manager. It provides health checks, automatic scaling, and detailed access logs, making it an ideal choice for modern, microservices-based applications deployed in the AWS cloud.

Amazon ALB belongs toLoad balancerscategory.

33websites

use it — 1.3% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months

#1of 4

tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 5)

12public pages

on UptimeCard — open any of them to see how that site is doing

1.19% of all websites we track run Amazon ALB▼ 0.01 points since 20 Sep

At a glance

UptimeCard's own scans and tests of 2,555 websites · refreshed weekly

How Amazon ALB sites scoreout of 100 · hover or tap a score for details

46PerformancePooraverage site: 5085AccessibilityGoodaverage site: 8979Best practicesFairaverage site: 9377SEOFairaverage site: 92

Page load time

Loads about as fast as the average site

Amazon ALB sites
4.4 s
All sites
4.3 s

Most Amazon ALB sites load in 2.8–8.8 s. Home page weight: 2.8 MB vs 3.3 MB for all sites. 11 public sites measured.

Who uses it?

Technology and Software is the biggest group

Technology and Software42%
Business Services17%
Software as a Service (SaaS)17%
E-commerce8%

Share of 12 classified public sites. “× average” compares with all 961 public sites.

How Amazon ALB sites are built

Closest partners. The number says how many times more often the tool runs on Amazon ALB sites than on an average website. Hover a partner for its share of sites.

Adobe Target12×Adobe Experience Manager7×Java7×theTradeDesk7×Adobe Experience Platform Launch6×Adobe Analytics6×Adobe Experience Platform Identity Service6×Popper5×AWS Certificate Manager4×

Stacks we see most. Tools that tend to run together with Amazon ALB on the same websites. The percentage is the share of all 33 Amazon ALB sites that run the whole stack.

3 stacks · swipe, drag or use the arrows
#1

Amazon ALB + AWS Certificate Manager + Amazon CloudFront

12.1%4 of 33 sites
#2

Amazon ALB + Adobe Experience Manager + Amazon CloudFront

12.1%4 of 33 sites
#3

Amazon ALB + YouTube + GSAP

12.1%4 of 33 sites

Usually installed alongside

The bigger the bubble, the more of the 33 Amazon ALB sites also run the tool. Colour shows what the tool does. Hover or tap a bubble for details.

Google Tag Manager67%Adobe Experience Platform Launch27%Google Analytics64%Facebook Pixel27%Adobe Analytics18%Cart Functionality21%Microsoft Advertising18%theTradeDesk18%Adobe Target15%OneTrust15%
Tag managerAnalyticsOnline storeAdvertisingA/B testingCookie consent

Similar tools in its category

Load balancers: 5 tools known, 4 seen in our scans

Azure Front Door21 sitesAlternativeGoogle Cloud Load Balancing2 sitesAlternativeAmazon ELB1 sitesAlternativeApplication Request Routing0 sitesAlternative

How websites combine Amazon ALB with other tools

Relationships found on the websites that use it, from the same map status pages show.

Built on a platform 8Integrates with another 6Needs another tool 4Complements another tool 2

Websites using Amazon ALB

33 websites use Amazon ALB: 1.3% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months. A selection is shown below.

Scores are out of 100: P Performance · A Accessibility · B Best practices · S SEO. Green 80+, yellow 65–79, orange 50–64, red below 50. The dot shows whether our last scan found the site failing (red) or not (green); Red, amber or blue: an active incident on the site's status page (outage, degraded, maintenance) or a failing scan; amber also means a certificate ending within 30 days. Hover the dot for details.

Questions about Amazon ALB

How many websites use Amazon ALB?
We found Amazon ALB on 33 of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (1.3%). 12 of them have a public status page.
What is Amazon ALB often used with?
Among the websites we scan, Amazon ALB is often found alongside AWS Certificate Manager (45.5% of its sites), Java (36.4% of its sites), reCAPTCHA (33.3% of its sites).
What are the alternatives to Amazon ALB?
Other load balancers tools we recognize include Azure Front Door, Google Cloud Load Balancing, Amazon ELB, Application Request Routing.

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