AWS Auto Scaling vs. NGINX Plus

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Auto Scaling
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
AWS Auto Scaling monitors applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. The vendor states that using AWS Auto Scaling, it’s easy to setup application scaling for multiple resources across multiple services in minutes.N/A
NGINX Plus
Score 8.6 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
AWS Auto ScalingNGINX Plus
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Team
$849
per month billed annually
Advanced
$2,099
per month billed annually
Enterprise
Tiered Pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS Auto ScalingNGINX 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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AWS Auto ScalingNGINX Plus
Features
AWS Auto ScalingNGINX Plus
Application Servers
Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
AWS Auto Scaling
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Ratings
NGINX Plus
8.1
6 Ratings
1% above category average
IDE support00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
Security management00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Administration and management00 Ratings8.15 Ratings
Application server performance00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Installation00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings8.35 Ratings
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AWS Auto ScalingNGINX Plus
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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Score 9.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
NGINX
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
AWS Auto ScalingNGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(5 ratings)
8.4
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.5
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS Auto ScalingNGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
It is well suited for scaling up our cloud virtual machines to handle the increase or decrease in workload. It really helps us to satisfy the demand because it doesn't take lot of time to spin up new machines. If there is unpredictability in the demand it is very useful. But it is a over kill if demand is consistent.
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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
  • Set policies to add more instances when CPU utilization exceeds.
  • Prevents downtime, as we don't need to stop the servers.
  • Auto Scaling group can be setup for different types of apps.
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F5
  • APIGW
  • Policy Enforcement
  • Centrally Manage API Traffic
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Update code and configuration when the number of servers is always changing
  • How will user-uploaded content make it to new servers
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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
We use AWS auto scaling for scaling up our cloud virtual machines to handle the increase or decrease in workload. It really helps us to satisfy the demand because it doesn't take lot of time to spin up new machines. I gave the rating 10 because it really does help you to handle the sudden spike in number of requests.
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F5
Very easy to use
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
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
Used for the below reasons:
  • Easy to implement and use
  • Pay per use, cost savings
  • Automate and build scaling plans
  • Automate performance and workload
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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
  • optimized the cost effectiveness
  • save lot of money which help the organization to use it in effective areas
  • Not applicable for all use cases.It is specific use cases and business problems
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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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