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Pros
"The solution is easy-to-set up.""EKS provides autoscaling functionality.""Break down your application into small modules to improve resiliency""Initial setup is straightforward. It only takes 15 minutes to deploy.""The solution's Autoscaler option allows for an increase in worker notes whenever particular thresholds are exceeded.""It is the best service because it has proper security packages.""The stability of the solution is good.""Amazon EKS is very scalable."

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"The policies are flexible based on the technologies you use.""The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its open source.""It's very easy to deploy.""NGINX App Protect is stable.""It has the best documentation features.""The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its flexibility.""The most valuable feature is that there is a link in the system that will help to analyze the security of an application when something abnormal is found.""The stability of the product is very impressive since it handles 60,000 to 70,000 requests or transactions per second."

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Cons
"The management of the nodes in Amazon EKS should be improved.""The overall stability of the product should be improved to prevent any loss of data.""An area for improvement in Amazon EKS is the user experience. The platform could be more user-friendly. Only an expert can manage and use it.""Amazon EKS should improve its integration.""Amazon EKS is not a solution that can be fully managed through automation, making it an area of concern where improvement is required.""They could add logging features. At present, we use external tools to increase and decrease the number of instances.""The dashboard needs to be more user-friendly.""I would like to see the user interface improved because it is hard to find and not straightforward."

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"The price of NGINX App Protect could improve.""Areas for improvement would be if NGINX could scan for vulnerabilities and learn and update the signatures of DoS attacks.""Right now, the tool doesn't provide an option revolving around update feeds, specifically the signature update option in the UI.""The setup of NGINX App Protect is complex. The full process took one week to complete. Additionally, we had to change the network infrastructure platform which took one month.""As far as scalability, it takes a long time for deployment.""They could provide a better user interface.""The integration of NGINX App Protect could improve.""The dashboard could provide a more comprehensive view of the status of the connections."

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  • "The solution is more expensive than other competitors and does not require a license."
  • "Cloud based pay-as-you-go pricing"
  • "My company paid for the license."
  • "Pricing is dependent upon instance type."
  • "The solution is quite costly and developers will start exploring other solutions or moving their workloads to other clouds if costs aren't reduced."
  • "The price could be cheaper. I would rate it as seven out of ten."
  • "Amazon EKS has fair pricing. It's better in terms of pricing than other platforms."
  • "I would like a cheaper version of it."
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  • "The licensing fees for this solution are pretty expensive for what it does, but there is no alternative."
  • "Our licensing costs are about $40,000 a year."
  • "Really understand the licensing model, because we underestimated that."
  • "There are no additional fees."
  • "NGINX is not expensive."
  • "The pricing is reasonable because NGINX operates on an instance basis."
  • "There is a license needed to use NGINX App Protect."
  • "There are not any additional costs we had to pay to use NGINX App Protect."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product's most valuable features are scalability, observability, and performance.
    Top Answer:The product pricing depends on the specific requirements. For instance, clients between $3000-$4000 per month might find the pricing reasonable, with clusters priced around $70 to $80 plus additional… more »
    Top Answer:They could add logging features. At present, we use external tools to increase and decrease the number of instances.
    Top Answer:The solution has yearly, three-year, and five-year subscriptions.
    Top Answer:NGINX App Protect could provide a better user interface.
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    Also Known As
    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
    NGINX WAF, NGINX Web Application Firewall
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    Overview

    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a fully managed Kubernetes service. Customers such as Intel, Snap, Intuit, GoDaddy, and Autodesk trust EKS to run their most sensitive and mission critical applications because of its security, reliability, and scalability.

    EKS is the best place to run Kubernetes for several reasons. First, you can choose to run your EKS clusters using AWS Fargate, which is serverless compute for containers. Fargate removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves security through application isolation by design. Second, EKS is deeply integrated with services such as Amazon CloudWatch, Auto Scaling Groups, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), providing you a seamless experience to monitor, scale, and load-balance your applications. Third, EKS integrates with AWS App Mesh and provides a Kubernetes native experience to consume service mesh features and bring rich observability, traffic controls and security features to applications. Additionally, EKS provides a scalable and highly-available control plane that runs across multiple availability zones to eliminate a single point of failure.
    EKS runs upstream Kubernetes and is certified Kubernetes conformant so you can leverage all benefits of open source tooling from the community. You can also easily migrate any standard Kubernetes application to EKS without needing to refactor your code.

    NGINX App Protect application security solution combines the efficacy of advanced F5 web application firewall (WAF) technology with the agility and performance of NGINX Plus. The solution runs natively on NGINX Plus and addresses some of the most difficult challenges facing modern DevOps environments:

    • Integrating security controls directly into the development automation pipeline
    • Applying and managing security for modern and distributed application environments such as containers and microservices
    • Providing the right level of security controls without impacting release and go-to-market velocity
    • Complying with security and regulatory requirements

    NGINX App Protect offers:

    • Expanded security beyond basic signatures to ensure adequate controls
    • F5 app‑security technology for efficacy superior to ModSecurity and other WAFs
    • Confidently run in “blocking” mode in production with proven F5 expertise
    • High‑confidence signatures for extremely low false positives
    • Increases visibility, integrating with third‑party analytics solutions
    • Integrates security and WAF natively into the CI/CD pipeline
    • Deploys as a lightweight software package that is agnostic of underlying infrastructure
    • Facilitates declarative policies for “security as code” and integration with DevOps tools
    • Decreases developer burden and provides feedback loop for quick security remediation
    • Accelerates time to market and reduces costs with DevSecOps‑automated security
    Sample Customers
    GoDaddy, Pearson, FICO, Intuit, Verizon, Honeywell, Logicworks, RetailMeNot, LogMeIn, Conde Nast, mercari, Trainline, Axway
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    Financial Services Firm26%
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    Manufacturing Company11%
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    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Government7%
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    Insurance Company17%
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    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise44%
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    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise73%
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    Midsize Enterprise26%
    Large Enterprise47%
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    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Amazon EKS is ranked 15th in Container Security with 38 reviews while NGINX App Protect is ranked 20th in Container Security with 19 reviews. Amazon EKS is rated 8.6, while NGINX App Protect is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon EKS writes "Supports multiple tools and has a straightforward setup process ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX App Protect writes "Capable of complete automation but is costly ". Amazon EKS is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Kubernetes, Rancher Labs and Linode, whereas NGINX App Protect is most compared with AWS WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall.

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