Cost Comparison Tool
Are you Paying Too Much for your Cloud Load Balancers?
Native load balancers from leading cloud providers are convenient and efficient to use when developing and launching new applications. But as applications mature and traffic grows, the costs for the load balancing features grow as well.
Many organizations lose track of the growing cost for load balancing.
Use our calculator to quickly estimate and compare the annual cost of network, application and gateway load balancing from leading cloud providers in three potential volume scenarios.
Estimate Your Bandwidth Needs
Choose three capacity estimates (in Gbps) to compare, based on likely business scenarios for your cloud load balancer. For example:
- Scenario #1: Constant traffic, given today's usage levels
- Scenario #2: Constant traffic, given future expected usage levels
- Scenario #3: Constant traffic, given redistribution of traffic to different cloud provider
What is "Constant" Bandwidth?
"Constant" bandwidth is the average level over a 24-hour period. It is different from "peak" bandwidth, which is the highest traffic level that could be expected. Peak bandwidth is often 1.5-3X higher than the average constant bandwidth.
In this calculator, constant bandwidth will be assumed as 24x7 usage for a full year and converted to data processed (in gigabytes). Cloud service providers price their services on consumption models - the actual volume of data processed, while A10 licenses its solutions on the peak bandwidth capacity needed.
Your Results: Annual Data Processed
Here is the estimate of annual data processed (in gigabytes) based on the three scenarios you provided.
The annual data is used to calculate the cost comparisons on the next page.
Assumptions
Annual data processed uses your scenario inputs and the following assumptions:
- 1000 Mbps = 1 Gbps
- 8 Gigabits per gigabyte (GB)
- 3600 seconds per hour
- 8,760 active hours per year
Your Results: Cost Comparisons
Here are your estimated annual costs for network, application, and gateway load balancers from AWS and Azure, given your three bandwidth scenarios.
Choose Your Load Balancer Type:
All cost estimates are based on published AWS and Azure prices.
Application (L7) and gateway load balancers are priced differently than simple network (L4) load balancers. Application (L7) load balancers are more costly. Often, gateway load balancers are needed in addition to network or application load balancers.
A10 Thunder ADC Could Save You Money
You have options - you don't have to utilize the native load balancing offered by cloud providers. A10 Thunder ADC is available in many different form factors, can integrate seamlessly with existing AWS and Azure cloud environments, and is available on all major cloud platform providers.
A10 Cost Comparison
Cost comparison with three representative volume scenarios are shown below.
A10 Thunder® ADC licensing is based on peak bandwidth and includes both network and application layer load balancing in one all-inclusive license.
A10 Thunder ADC license is often more affordable than a consumption-based model.
A10 estimates below include the A10 Thunder ADC FlexPool license, high availability at peak bandwidth levels, and cloud server compute costs. For this comparison, peak bandwidth is assumed to be 1.5X constant bandwidth.
Choose Your Load Balancer Type:
Need more than 100 Gbps constant bandwidth? Cloud load balancer costs rise proportionately with bandwidth. For example, 200 Gbps of constant bandwidth can cost over $6 million. A10 can provide comparable solutions for less than half that cost.
Actual costs may vary, so contact us to get a more specific ROI comparison analysis. All prices are at list prices, with no discounts applied.
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