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HAProxy Enterprise is a fast, flexible, and reliable software load balancer. It features SSL termination and offloading, multi-layered security including a web application firewall (WAF), detailed observability, application acceleration, and robust administration. HAProxy Enterprise is backed by authoritative support and professional services.
Overview
HAProxy Enterprise enables modern application delivery at any scale and in any environment, including on AWS. Fast and efficient load balancing improves application performance and reliability (2 million RPS on a single Arm-based AWS Graviton2 instance). Multi-layered security protects applications against DoS, bots, abuse, and layer 7 application attacks. Observability features enable fast issue resolution, pro-active prevention, and informed capacity planning.
Simple to deploy and administer, with flexible service discovery, RESTful Data Plane API, single sign-on (SSO), zero downtime reloads, automatic dynamic updates of ACL/Map files, SSL/TLS certificate automation (including Let's Encrypt integration and OCSP stapling), device detection and geolocation databases.
HAProxy Enterprise on AWS is compatible with HAProxy Fusion for centralized management, monitoring, and automation, including support for AWS Auto Scaling groups, Route 53, and CloudWatch. This combination simplifies the management and observability of your load balancing and WAF layers at scale.
Highlights
- Load balancing: Fast and reliable, high availability, wide protocol support, choice of algorithms, and complex routing logic.
- Security: Multi-layered defense for apps and APIs with SSL/TLS, bot management and crawler validation, rate limiting, and web application firewall (WAF).
- Observability: Advanced logging, Prometheus integration, SNMP, end-to-end request timing, OpenTracing.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Usage instructions
Launching AMI: Deploy the HAProxy Enterprise AMI using the instance size of your choice. We recommend choosing an instance with at least 2 CPUs and with at least 8 GB RAM. Select the instance size, agree to the subscription terms, and follow the AMI configuration instructions.
Connecting to Instance: Once the AMI has been launched and fully booted (instance is being shown as healthy) you can connect to it using the SSH key pair that you selected while launching the instance.
Use the following command to connect to the instance depending upon the operating system that you selected. Please make note of the instance IP and connect either through private IP (from bastion host) or through public IP (EIP):
Ubuntu: ssh -i <private key> ubuntu@<ec2 IP> Red Hat Enterprise Linux: ssh -i <private key> ec2-user@<ec2 IP>
Starting and Managing the service: The HAProxy Enterprise service will automatically run upon initialization. You can manage the process using systemctl.
To view the process status run systemctl status hapee-2.6-lb
Accessing Web Dashboard: To access the dashboard you will need to first get the username/password from /README.txt
$ cat /README.txt
Then connect using http://<ec2 IP>:9022/
Quick Start Guide: https://www.haproxy.com/amazon-quickstart-guide/Â Complete Documentation: https://www.haproxy.com/documentation/hapee/Â
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9am - 6pm | Critical Issue Target Response Time: 8 hrs | Email and Web | Prompt Maintenance and Updates. We are available at contact@haproxy.com if you require 24x7 support, significantly shorter SLAs, and consultative support. Please activate your support license at https://www.haproxy.com/amazon-support-activation or contact us at contact@haproxy.comÂ
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Load Balancing Capabilities
High-performance load balancing supporting multiple protocols with complex routing logic and multiple algorithms
Security Framework
Multi-layered security defense including web application firewall (WAF), SSL/TLS protection, bot management, and rate limiting mechanisms
Observability Infrastructure
Advanced logging system with Prometheus integration, SNMP support, end-to-end request timing, and OpenTracing compatibility
Service Discovery
Flexible service discovery mechanism with RESTful Data Plane API and automatic dynamic updates of ACL/Map files
SSL/TLS Management
Automated SSL/TLS certificate handling with Let's Encrypt integration, OCSP stapling, and zero downtime reloads
Load Balancing
High availability load balancing for TCP and HTTP-based applications with support for multiple HAProxy versions from 2.0 to 3.2
Container Runtime
Docker-based runtime environment enabling containerized application deployment and management
Application Deployment
GitOps-based platform supporting one-click deployment of over 200 template applications with integrated app store
Infrastructure Management
Web-based interface for performing domain binding, HTTPS configuration, access control, and status monitoring
Scalability
Capable of handling high-performance scenarios with support for more than 10,000 simultaneous client-side connections
Load Balancing Mechanism
"High-performance load balancing with advanced traffic management capabilities"
Traffic Distribution
"Supports distributed systems and containerized environments with minimal latency"
Open Source Architecture
"Powerful open source software stack with comprehensive documentation and community support"
Platform Compatibility
"Optimized for deployment across various cloud platforms and infrastructure environments"
Performance Optimization
"Designed for exceptional scalability and efficient network traffic handling"
Standard contract
No
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Customer reviews
4.5
1 ratings
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564 external reviews
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reviewer2774310
Has simplified load distribution across services and centralized configuration management
Reviewed on Nov 02, 2025
Review provided by PeerSpot
What is our primary use case?
I have been using HAProxy for about a year.
My main use case for HAProxy is mostly forwarding public traffic into internal services over a Proxmox HA cluster. I get traffic from Keepalived VIP and forward it to HAProxy, and from there to internal services. I monitor and track port 80 and 443.
I am also using HAProxy for Redis and RabbitMQ traffic. I have three dedicated servers right now, with each server having one Redis node and one RabbitMQ node. Based on the traffic, for example, if an API is running on host one, HAProxy forwards traffic from this API host one to host one Redis node or RabbitMQ node one, internally making them use the same host to prevent latency.
What is most valuable?
The best features HAProxy offers for my setup are easy configuration, as I don't need to set up many things; I just installed it and write configurations based on my needs. Traffic flows easily, and it's easy to manage all the internal services in one place, in one file.
The configuration is easy for me because the syntax is straightforward; it's easy to catch paths and domains. It seems simpler than NGINXÂ , and the load balancing is very good on HAProxy. The load balancing is easy on HAProxy, and I appreciate that.
HAProxy has positively impacted my organization by making it easier for me to manage configurations. I put configuration files on the Ceph storage shared across the whole cluster, allowing me to write my configuration, change it easily in one place, and reload it. I wrote a reload script that reloads all the configurations on all the cluster nodes, allowing them to run smoothly.
I don't know how much time I save, but it made my setup stable, which is the most positive aspect. There are months when I don't even touch it as long as I don't add a new service on my cluster.
What needs improvement?
HAProxy is very easy for me to use. I installed it easily and configured it after checking the documentation, which was clear. I wrote as described, and it worked well, but an easier desktop interface to connect to a remote server and make changes on my PC would be beneficial.
An alerting system would be better as I need to check log files if any backend is down. Integrated Telegram alerts or WhatsApp or different channels would make it better.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
HAProxy is very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
HAProxy's scalability is easy for me as I'm using it on dedicated servers with a cluster, but I haven't used it for Kubernetes or any other cloud platforms, so I cannot comment on that.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I was using NGINXÂ before switching to HAProxy.
How was the initial setup?
Setting up HAProxy didn't cost anything for me.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Setting up HAProxy didn't cost anything for me.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing HAProxy, I discussed it with ChatGPT, found it convenient, tried it, tested it, and it was fine, so I didn't bother to try anything else.
What other advice do I have?
My advice to others looking into using HAProxy is to dive straight into it; there's nothing to lose and many things to gain. I would rate this product an 8.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Computer Software
Outstanding Performance and Excellent Support in an Open-Source Load Balancer
Reviewed on Oct 23, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
This open-source load balancer offers outstanding performance and comes with excellent support.
What do you dislike about the product?
One small suggestion I have is that it would be helpful if the configuration were available in a standardized format. This would make it much easier to create templates or automate the generation process.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This is a highly scalable and efficient load balancer that offers a wide range of powerful features. Additionally, the WAF performs exceptionally well.
Qin T.
Easy Implementation and Outstanding Support from HAProxy Team
Reviewed on Oct 22, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to implement and support. HAProxy Support (especially its Slack Channel) is excellent. They like our extended team to closely work with us.
What do you dislike about the product?
It will be helpful if we can version feature in haproxy config.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We just replaced F5 with HAProxy, It benefits us with cost reduction (e.g., F5 Support cost and the internal supporting costs). It will help us to support us the containerization in the future.
Manufacturing
Powerful, Consistent, and User-Centric Solutions with Outstanding Support
Reviewed on Oct 22, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
HAProxy solutions are incredibly powerful tools. All have been build in a consistent way in order to achieve their purpose as efficiently as possible: provide visibility (logs), redundancy (loadbalancing), security (reverse-proxy).
The company mindset itself is incredibly user-centric, with an amazing support : whether I am facing an issue, raise a security concern or have an improvement suggestion, I always feel confident my voice will be heard, and in a very efficient way. This probably comes from the open-source mindset of the team!
The company mindset itself is incredibly user-centric, with an amazing support : whether I am facing an issue, raise a security concern or have an improvement suggestion, I always feel confident my voice will be heard, and in a very efficient way. This probably comes from the open-source mindset of the team!
What do you dislike about the product?
"Disliking" is a harsh word to describe the feeling I have here. Although I think this traces back to the DNA of the team, being rooted in open-source often underlines you get to have a lot of autonomy in understanding and configuring your solution : so I agree with other people here, it can be harsh at times to "get into" the configuration of the solution.
However, this difficulty is appeased by all the support the HAProxy team is able and willing to provide : it can be difficult at times, but I never feel lonely behind my laptop when I need to work on my infrastructure.
However, this difficulty is appeased by all the support the HAProxy team is able and willing to provide : it can be difficult at times, but I never feel lonely behind my laptop when I need to work on my infrastructure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
HAProxy helps us adding more granularity in the way we expose our applications.
It has also given us a very efficient way to log the flows.
And also, with HAProxy we've been able provide a very strict frame to handle our server outgoing flows.
It has also given us a very efficient way to log the flows.
And also, with HAProxy we've been able provide a very strict frame to handle our server outgoing flows.
Computer & Network Security
Stable, Versatile, and Backed by Excellent Support
Reviewed on Oct 21, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
- The stability of the product
- The wide range of possibilities
- The extremely good manufacturer support
- Centralized management
- Good documentation
- The diverse and long-standing community
- Feature requests are implemented quickly
- The wide range of possibilities
- The extremely good manufacturer support
- Centralized management
- Good documentation
- The diverse and long-standing community
- Feature requests are implemented quickly
What do you dislike about the product?
I have no points that I dislike about the product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
HAProxy serves as a replacement for the previously used load balancer product NSX Advanced Load Balancer.