We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Load Balancing and NGINX Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is straightforward to deploy."
"The solution offers good load balancing."
"It is a very scalable solution in which you can add more servers instantly."
"It has very good features. It is very configurable. Security with TLS, et cetera is also very easy."
"The solution is very well integrated into Amazon's services."
"Security and monitoring for high-performance applications are some of the top features."
"Amazon Elastic Load Balancing transfers the data securely from servers to users and splits the traffic based on peak times."
"The feature that I like the most is the scalability. The solutions I build often have many pieces, which are very complicated. If a client comes to me with a design, my developer has made this as a template or a cloud formation script. It's a design on paper, and I want it executed a certain way. I can do that quickly and repeatedly with AWS. That is a considerable advantage because I can take that template and do it five times in different zones. That is an excellent feature based on a template, et cetera."
"With NGINX, I appreciate its ability to route traffic geographically."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"The flexibility of its modules allow it to be scalable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is simple to configure."
"The product is lightweight and fast."
"The machines created by Amazon Elastic Load Balancing have different IP addresses, which we are not able to whitelist or predict."
"It would be good if we had a product that integrates well with third-party vendors. Some of our customers want a multi-cloud solution. They don't want to be tied up to or be in just one cloud."
"They should improve the solution's pricing."
"The product's stability is an area with a slight shortcoming, which can be improved."
"We faced some issues with the health check."
"The solution needs to guarantee stability because multiple loads behind a load balancer can cause service unavailability."
"One issue that we faced with ALB was that leaf-level certificate validation was not happening. It is not that user-friendly in that aspect."
"The reporting could be simplified so that the client sees a report of what they cached at the end of the month and the number of hits. It should have metrics above and beyond their Google analytics, etc. You can't do that with the solutions from AWS. You have to build sophisticated cloud trails, reports, dashboards, etc. The setup is significant, and it's hard to manage. You'll need to hire someone or pay a consultant on a regular basis to manage it, and it's not for the faint of heart."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"Only improvement needed that I would point to is scalability. With it, I mean clusterized organisation on a low level. At the moment, the best alternative is RHEL HA."
"The biggest room for improvement would be to allow NGINX Core machines to cluster for memory zones in some way with a plug and play module. "
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"It would be good if NGINX provided a graphical user interface."
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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is ranked 11th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 9 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is rated 8.4, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing writes "A tool that offers its users resiliency, high availability, and a great scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and HAProxy, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Apache Web Server. See our Amazon Elastic Load Balancing vs. NGINX Plus report.
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