Amazon Elastic Load Balancing vs. NGINX Plus

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Elastic Load Balancing
Score 6.6 out of 10
N/A
Amazon's 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 with the vendor states all feature the high availability, automatic scaling, and robust security necessary to make…
$0.01
Partial Hour
NGINX Plus
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
NGINX Plus is presented as a cloud‑native, easy-to-use reverse proxy, load balancer, and API gateway, from F5.
$849
per month billed annually
Pricing
Amazon Elastic Load BalancingNGINX Plus
Editions & Modules
Gateway
$0.0125
Partial Hour
Application
$0.0225
Partial Hour
Network
$0.025
Partial Hour
Team
$849
per month billed annually
Advanced
$2,099
per month billed annually
Enterprise
Tiered Pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Elastic Load BalancingNGINX Plus
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Features
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Application Servers
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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
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Ratings
NGINX Plus
7.1
3 Ratings
11% below category average
IDE support00 Ratings7.12 Ratings
Security management00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Administration and management00 Ratings6.42 Ratings
Application server performance00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Installation00 Ratings6.72 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon Elastic Load BalancingNGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(4 ratings)
8.3
(3 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Elastic Load BalancingNGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
We use Amazon Elastic Load Balancers to serve mobile applications and websites. It works really well. We have not had any problems until now. Last year we integrated the AWS ELB with the EC2 Auto Scaling and now we have a fully working elastic solution. We increase/decrease EC2s instances based on traffic over our load balancers.
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F5
Makes our life easy as application admins in securing our applications and making them accessible. We can easily add an application within a few minutes and define the backend servers right away.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Most obviously it works great for routing traffic between components hosted on Amazon web services
  • The ability to dynamically spin up connections is fantastic.
  • In general the ease of use and configuration is a selling point.
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F5
  • APIGW
  • Policy Enforcement
  • Centrally Manage API Traffic
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Occasionally we have a huge number of users using our network at once, and Amazon ELB isn't quite fast enough to scale effectively when that occurs. But this doesn't happen very often as our usage is usually quite stable
  • If we want to add another application to our learning suite, we would have to add another load balancer, which would incur additional cost
  • The setup was not easy and could really only be handled by one person on our team with the technical background to do so
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F5
  • An AI bot would be cool to help build config files
  • More webinars for advanced NGINX Plus would be great
  • GUI tool... might already be one available
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
F5
No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it.
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Usability
Amazon AWS
AWS Elastic Load Balancing has this trick. First, you need to know how it works. ELB is not the only piece here. ELB has a very close relation with AWS Target Groups. You create or select a target group every time you create a Load balancer. Target groups allow you to connect the load balancer to EC2 autoscaling groups, Lambda functions, or even a single EC2 instance. While this sounds complex, it becomes easy, once you know his tricks. Thanks to the user interface, managing a ELB is an easy task. The rules editor is really useful, although it will need a bit of improvement to some interface items
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F5
Very easy to use
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
AWS gives you several support plans. On the free plan, you basicaly need to google for help, but the good news is that AWS Elastic Load Balancing works. We has more than 15 load balancers and we never run into a problem that require support. But you mght consider a support plan if you are going to do something more complex or critical
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F5
We had an issue after upgrading from RHEL 7 to 8, and there were some issues that the security team imposed upon the platform with a scanning tool. We also had a VXLAN environment that was not properly sending a gratuitous arp to the network. NGINX support was instrumental to speedily resolving our issue.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
We have not used any other solution out there in the market but our dev-ops team did deep research and AWS provided us the solution we needed to be cost-effective. Also, the decision to keep working with Amazon was strategic. We were already using other AWS features and [Amazon Elastic Load Balancing] integrates great with those.
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F5
The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Currently it is too soon to say for sure what kind of impact this will have.
  • The ideal goal is that this will be cheaper than having to host our own routing on site.
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F5
  • We are planning by using NGINX it can greatly reduce our OPEX by 50% "just our own running APIGW" the cascading effects in the long run will be much more.
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