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."Amazon Elastic Load Balancing transfers the data securely from servers to users and splits the traffic based on peak times."
"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 offers good load balancing."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is scaling."
"Security and monitoring for high-performance applications are some of the top features."
"The solution is very well integrated into Amazon's services."
"It is straightforward to deploy."
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is simple to configure."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"The most valuable features are the gateway and the ability to publish to sites."
"I find the solution’s community support and documentation most valuable. Compared to HAProxy, have found a lot of documentation and community support on Quora. If you would be asking me as a developer whether to choose this product, I would recommend this since it has good community support, documentation, and signature updates. The configuration of HAProxy is also very tedious. However, NGINX’s configuration is very simple."
"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."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"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."
"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."
"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 machines created by Amazon Elastic Load Balancing have different IP addresses, which we are not able to whitelist or predict."
"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. "
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
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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 27 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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