Enterprise AWS

Product overview

Built for high performance, fully featured and easy to use, our load balancer is specifically designed for a broad range of AWS services. Ideal for hybrid deployments, get the security, scalability and always-on experience you want for your applications. 

Standard Features

• Server Load Balancing (SLB) for any TCP or UDP based protocol
• SSL Acceleration/Offload
• Layer 7 Content Switching
• Transparent caching for HTTP/HTTPS
• Compression of static and dynamic HTTP/HTTPS content
• No bandwidth, performance or feature limitations
• High performance Direct Routing, TUN, NAT and SNAT
• Schedulers: Round Robin, Least Connection, Weighted Least Connection, Weighted Round Robin
• Dynamic Schedulers: Windows and Linux feedback agents, Custom HTTP feedback option
• Load balance almost ANY protocol i.e. HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, Terminal Server, etc.
• Support for Direct Server Return (DSR) configurations
• Configurable S-NAT support
• Link aggregation (802.3ad)
• VLAN Tagging (802.1Q)
• GSLB

SSL

• PCI-ready SSL Implementation
• Unlimited support for SSL Certificates
• Support for Third Party Certificates
• Automated SSL Certificate Chaining
• SSL Certificate Signing Request (CSR) Generation
• PFX upload and conversion
• Proxy protocol support

L4/L7 sticky persistence

• Connection persistence based on
  • Source IP address
  • SSL Session ID
  • Passive Cookie
  • Active Cookie (Insert)
  • RDP Cookie/Session Broker
  • X-forwarded for header
• Port following (Persistence on multiple combined ports)
• Multiple fallback options i.e. use source IP if no cookie found

Security functionality

• Fully integrated WAF (Web Application Firewall)
• OWASP top 10 protection
• Persistent Access Control List system
• Firewall filtering (full iptables scripting support)
• Firewall lock down wizard
• DDOS mitigation both at layer 4 and 7
• Virtual patching
• HTTP and SYN Flood protection
• Block SQL Injection Attacks
• Prevent Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
• FIPS 140-2 Compliant
• PCI DSS Ready
• Reverse proxy

Health checking and high availability

• Application health checking for DNS, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, NNTP and many more
• ICMP health checking of server farm machines
• External Health Check scripts can be edited and managed using WebUI across L4/L7 and GSLB
• Automatic reconfiguration for defective real server machines
• Automatically remove a failed server from the load balancing pool
• Automatic replication of static and dynamic configuration from master to slave load balancer
• Stateful Failover (persistence table replication)
• One click secure clustered pair configuration

EC2 features

Static IP support
Auto Scaling group integrations
IP configuration through Web User Interface, no need to use AWS console
HA across multiple availability zones

Scheduling and balancing methods

• Round Robin
• Weighted Round Robin
• Least Connection
• Weighted Least Connection
• Agent-based Adaptive (Windows and Linux Agents)
• Layer 7 Content Switching
• Destination Hash for transparent proxy

Administration

• Secure, SSH, HTTP and HTTPS for remote access administration
• Fully configurable using Web User Interface (WUI)
• Easy start configuration and maintenance wizards
• Extensive ACL Traffic Rules configurable using WebUI
• WebUI-based Help Assistant
• Online chat support integrated in WebUI
• Virtual Service Configurations can be edited and tuned on-the-fly
• Real time performance and availability displays
• Optionally configure console port for local administration
• Remotely scriptable Command Line Interface (LBCLI) Option
• SOAP interface to the LBCLI API
• Local and Remote syslogd support
• Selective restore of physical and Virtual Service data
• Support for Connection Draining or halting with or without persistence
• Software and Security updates available on and off-line
• WebUI Log Reporting with Tabbed Browser Support
• SNMP support for performance metrics
• Full root access to with a multitude of diagnostic tools tcpdump etc.

Support services

• All subscription options come with our Global Standard 24/7 support.
• BYOL appliances come with a range of support options to suit you.