| Criteria | Amazon Elastic Load Balancer | Azure Load Balancer |
| Definition | Complete assortment of load balancing services for distributing application traffic throughout multiple targets. | One of the load balancing solutions offered by Microsoft Azure is a layer 4 load balancing service for all inbound and outbound UDP/TCP protocols. |
| Types | Users can access four different load balancers such as: Application load balancer Gateway load balancer Classic load balancer Network load balancer | Users could use two types of load balancers such as: Public load balancer Internal load balancers High performance Zero trust network security model |
| Reasons to Use | Ease of scalability High performance Hybrid cloud support Multiple load balancer functionalities Integration with AWS services | Doesn’t store customer data The flexibility of selecting backend pool instances |