Amazon Elastic Load Balancing vs. NGINX

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing

14 Reviews and Ratings

NGINX

140 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Elastic Load Balancing	Score6.6 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	Score9.2 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	NGINX, a business unit of F5 Networks, powers over 65% of the world's busiest websites and web applications. NGINX started out as an open source web server and reverse proxy, built to be faster and more efficient than Apache. Over the years, NGINX has built a suite of infrastructure software products o tackle some of the biggest challenges in managing high-transaction applications. NGINX offers a suite of products to form the core of what organizations need to create…	N/A

Pricing

Elastic Load Balancing

NGINX

Gateway: $0.0125
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Application: $0.0225
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Network: $0.025
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Pricing Offerings
Elastic Load Balancing	NGINX
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Elastic Load Balancing	NGINX
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Verified User Chose Elastic Load Balancing 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 … Incentivized Helpful?	F5 Verified User Chose NGINX The support and ability to provide near zero downtime for changes is a winner. The lightweight engine also helps reduce cost. Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

Elastic Load Balancing

NGINX

Comparison of Application Servers features of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing and NGINX
Feature	Amazon Elastic Load Balancing - Ratings	NGINX 7.8 21 Ratings
IDE support	00 Ratings	7.210 Ratings
Security management	00 Ratings	8.018 Ratings
Administration and management	00 Ratings	7.018 Ratings
Application server performance	00 Ratings	8.018 Ratings
Installation	00 Ratings	9.718 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance	00 Ratings	7.016 Ratings

User Ratings
	Elastic Load Balancing	NGINX
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (4 ratings)	8.8 (48 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.0 (1 ratings)	8.1 (4 ratings)