Compare Microsoft Azure Application Gateway vs. NGINX Plus
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers with 2 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers with 6 reviews. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 8.6, while NGINX Plus is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway writes "Stable and simple to use with good technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Helped us painlessly deploy sites over a number of servers to balance the load". Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is most compared with F5 BIG-IP, AWS WAF and F5 Advanced WAF, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with F5 BIG-IP, HAProxy and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway.
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The simplicity of the solution and its ability to integrate easily with others are its most valuable aspects. We chose this solution in the first place because it has access to Layer 7. I can control the requests and the content, which I can access on my network if I want to even if it's forbidden access to other external resources. If I want to monitor, for example, traffic, and apply this rule on Layer 7, I can do so. This was our main goal when implementing this application. We wanted to take advantage of the Gateway capabilities. | Its most valuable features are load balancing and application delivery. This is the most efficient application for these features because of stability and its efficiency. NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable. The flexibility of its modules allow it to be scalable. Zero Downtime has always been a strength in recommending infrastructure web services. NGINX allows me to execute such infrastructure with less complications and the ability to switch from server to server easily. When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great. |
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The pricing of the solution could be improved. Right now, it's a bit expensive. The pricing of the solution is a bit high. The solution should offer different pricing systems. | They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing. Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun. If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. Make modules easier to enable or disable. The beauty and ugly side of the NGINX modules is you have to know how to compile the module. For beginners or non-very technical aspirant(s) going for NGINX, they have to learn how to compile the modules. I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface. |
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Information Not Available | NGINX is a free tool in Brazil. There are some companies which do support it. The price is the cost to contract support with a specialized company, usually during consulting hours. |
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| Azure Application Gateway | NGINX |
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| Microsoft | F5 |
Overview | |
Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Traditional load balancers operate at the transport layer (OSI layer 4 - TCP and UDP) and route traffic based on source IP address and port, to a destination IP address and port. | NGINX Plus is the all‑in‑one application delivery platform for the modern web. NGINX is the world’s most popular open source web server and load balancer for high‑traffic sites, powering over 200 million properties. NGINX Plus adds enterprise-ready features for HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing, such as session persistence, health checks, advanced monitoring, and management to give you the freedom to innovate without being constrained by infrastructure. |
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Learn more about Microsoft Azure Application Gateway | Learn more about NGINX Plus |
Sample Customers | |
| Lilly, AccuWeather, AIRFRANCE, Honeywell, | Locaweb, AppNexus, Wix, Reliam, Montana Interactive, MuleSoft, Warpwire, Discovery Education, InkaBinka, WordPress.com, Gogo, GOV.UK, NASA |
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Software R&D Company45% Comms Service Provider11% Media Company8% Government6% | Software R&D Company30% Comms Service Provider19% Media Company9% Retailer5% |
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