Amazon Elastic Load Balancing vs NGINX Plus comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and F5 are both solutions in the Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.3, while F5 is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.3. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 1.4% mindshare in ADC, compared to F5’s 8.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of F5 users who would recommend it.

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing

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100% willing to recommend

NGINX Plus

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92% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

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.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing

Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

10th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NGINX Plus

Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

5th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Infrastructure (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) category, the mindshare of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is 1.4%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NGINX Plus is 8.5%, down from 9.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

Featured Reviews

Mridu Boruah

Cloud manager at Baxter International Inc.

A tool that offers its users resiliency, high availability, and a great scalability

It is a very scalable solution in which you can add more servers instantly. I rate the scalability of the product a nine out of ten. The solution can handle a lot of load, and you don't need to do anything since it will just scale up and down as and when the load increases or decreases, respectively. There are thousands of users of various applications, and whoever wants to use an application has to use a load balancer.

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Ritesh-Bakhru

Major Account Manager at Check Point Software

Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation

NGINX cannot be a replacement for your traditional load balancer with what we use in the network today. However, with applications going toward microservices, NGINX is definitely a way forward. F5 has many traditional load balancing features, so they still need to bring some of those features to NGINX. NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5. I think F5 is trying to implement those features in NGINX so they can improve the balancing on NGINX, but I think that will take some time. With the traditional F5 set up, the same OS can do load balancing, firewalls, and even policy enforcement. If we are able to bring some of those capabilities to NGINX, I think it would become a versatile solution and usage would definitely increase.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Amazon Elastic Load Balancing transfers the data securely from servers to users and splits the traffic based on peak times."

"Security and monitoring for high-performance applications are some of the top features."

"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 solution is very well integrated into Amazon's services."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is scaling."

"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."

"We use the solution for internet-exposed websites and internal load-balancing purposes."

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"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."

"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."

"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."

"NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. "

"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."

"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."

"Its versatility and capabilities make it invaluable for implementing patches and fixes when necessary."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is simple to configure."

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Cons

"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."

"The machines created by Amazon Elastic Load Balancing have different IP addresses, which we are not able to whitelist or predict."

"The tool could enhance the internal load balancer with better health monitoring. The external load balancer needs more security parameters to protect it from the internet, as it currently lacks protection. It's okay for basic load balancing and those looking for basic functionality in an application load balancer. However, if someone is going to onboard a critical application, like in the banking sector, I wouldn't suggest Amazon Elastic Load Balancer because of security issues. There are no firewall restrictions."

"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."

"Improvement is needed in the integration with Terraform, especially in writing scripts for creating load balancers and target groups."

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"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."

"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. "

"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."

"The scalability could be improved."

"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."

"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."

"It would be good if NGINX provided a graphical user interface."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing fees are based on the number of connections one uses. It is a free tool for a certain amount of connections, which runs into thousands, and after that, there is a certain amount to be paid to Amazon."

"The solution's pricing is low and I rate it a nine out of ten."

"The solution is expensive."

"The product is not cheap."

"The solution's pricing is $30 per month."

"There is a yearly license."

"I have no issues with the tool's pricing."

"You pay for each feature that you want."

"I am not so happy with their pricing policy, but this is not the worse thing in my life. I can tolerate it."

"There's an open-source version of NGINX that is free."

"The cost is reasonable."

"Compared to other similar solutions on the market, I think it's over-priced."

"NGINX Plus is worth it, if you need it. If you do not need the features or support, the free and open source package is more than capable. "

"NGINX Plus is an open-source solution with limited additional features. When you try to get additional features in the solution, then you need to pay an extra amount to NGINX Plus."

"The price is the cost to contract support with a specialized company, usually during consulting hours."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

60%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon Elastic Load Balancing?

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing transfers the data securely from servers to users and splits the traffic based on peak times.

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What needs improvement with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing?

The tool could enhance the internal load balancer with better health monitoring. The external load balancer needs more security parameters to protect it from the internet, as it currently lacks pro...

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What is your primary use case for Amazon Elastic Load Balancing?

We use the solution for internet-exposed websites and internal load-balancing purposes.

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Which is better - IIS or NGINX Plus?

IIS is a flexible, secure, and manageable web server to host anything on the web. IIS’s scalable and open architecture can handle the most demanding tasks. From media streaming to web applications,...

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What do you like most about NGINX Plus?

It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NGINX Plus?

There's an open-source version of NGINX that is free. There's also NGINX Plus, which is a paid version with additional features.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Overview

Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. It can handle the varying load of your application traffic in a single Availability Zone or across multiple Availability Zones. Elastic Load Balancing offers three types of load balancers that all feature the high availability, automatic scaling, and robust security necessary to make your applications fault tolerant.

NGINX Plus is a versatile solution that offers load balancing, caching, proxying, and API deployment capabilities. It can be deployed on private or public clouds and is ideal for building CDN solutions. The solution can also be used to secure web applications and replace web services like Apache.

NGINX has helped organizations improve functioning, reduce downtimes, and offer a DevOps-friendly solution. Its community support and documentation are highly regarded, and its configuration is more straightforward, making it a recommended choice over HAProxy.

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