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."The solution offers good load balancing."
"Security and monitoring for high-performance applications are some of the top features."
"It is a very scalable solution in which you can add more servers instantly."
"The solution is very well integrated into Amazon's services."
"It has very good features. It is very configurable. Security with TLS, et cetera is also very easy."
"The tool integrates well with Amazon native services. Its valuable feature is integrations."
"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."
"It is straightforward to deploy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is simple to configure."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"Its versatility and capabilities make it invaluable for implementing patches and fixes when necessary."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"The load balancing module, which is equivalent to LTM, is the focus of the PSE. So far, the features of both are identical. I believe NGINX has more features for securing these services, but in terms of load balancing, both are massive solutions."
"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. "
"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 product's stability is an area with a slight shortcoming, which can be improved."
"The solution needs to guarantee stability because multiple loads behind a load balancer can cause service unavailability."
"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."
"The product should be made as an alternative to Amazon services. It would be easier for us if you got one service that is available everywhere."
"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."
"We faced some issues with the health check."
"The scalability could be improved."
"It would be good if NGINX provided a graphical user interface."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
"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. "
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is ranked 11th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 10 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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