Azure Container Instances vs. NGINX Ingress Controller

Azure Container Instances

19 Reviews and Ratings

NGINX Ingress Controller

4 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure Container Instances	Score10 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft's Azure Container Instances allows developers to focus on building apps without managing virtual machines or having to learn new tools—it's just the application, in a container, running in the cloud.	$0.01 Per GB Per Hour
NGINX Ingress Controller	Score7.7 out of 10	N/A	NGINX Ingress Controller is a traffic management solution for cloud‑native apps in Kubernetes and containerized environments.	N/A

Pricing

Azure Container Instances

NGINX Ingress Controller

Memory: $0.00533
Per GB Per Hour
vCPU: $0.04860
Per vCPU

No answers on this topic

Pricing Offerings
Azure Container Instances	NGINX Ingress Controller
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

No setup fee

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Features

Azure Container Instances

NGINX Ingress Controller

Comparison of Container Management features of Azure Container Instances and NGINX Ingress Controller
Feature	Azure Container Instances - Ratings	NGINX Ingress Controller 7.8 2 Ratings 5% below category average
Security and Isolation	00 Ratings	7.52 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization	00 Ratings	7.52 Ratings
Discovery Tools	00 Ratings	8.21 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks	00 Ratings	7.52 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery	00 Ratings	7.92 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging	00 Ratings	7.92 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Azure Container Instances	NGINX Ingress Controller
Small Businesses	Mirantis Kubernetes Engine Score8 out of 10	Mirantis Kubernetes Engine Score8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Score8.6 out of 10	Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Score8.6 out of 10
Enterprises	SUSE Rancher Score9.4 out of 10	SUSE Rancher Score9.4 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Azure Container Instances	NGINX Ingress Controller
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	7.9 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Azure Container Instances	NGINX Ingress Controller
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft No answers on this topic	F5 Best suited if we have to manage external traffic inside your Kubernetes cluster and want to use granular control to your applications. Incentivized Amit Setia Senior Engineer] Read full review
Pros	Microsoft No answers on this topic	F5 Provide access to containers Manage traffic Route traffic Lightweight Near to zero downtime Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Cons	Microsoft No answers on this topic	F5 Its not related to Ingress functionality but certificate management with cloud vendor would be a feature i would like to see. Incentivized Amit Setia Senior Engineer] Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft No answers on this topic	F5 We are already using NGINX which is so reliable, it definitely lends weight to our decision to select NGINX Ingress Controller. Also, even though it is a little more complex to manage, NGINX Ingress Controller definitely have a richer feature set, better performance, caching, traffic management among other features which was why it was chosen. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft No answers on this topic	F5 Security is one of the best objective which we achieve with NGINX Ingress Cost optimization is one of the business objective Incentivized Amit Setia Senior Engineer] Read full review
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