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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ASecurely connects distributed apps and services across public cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. Utilizing Infrastructure as Code, App Connect provisions resources and maintain uniform policies across multiple sites.N/A

    NGINX Plus

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ANGINX 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
    F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectNGINX 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
    F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectNGINX Plus
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectNGINX Plus
    Considered Both Products
    F5
    No answer on this topic
    F5
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    11 Answers
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    67%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectNGINX Plus
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect and NGINX Plus
    Feature
    F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
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    Ratings
    NGINX Plus
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    2% above category average
    IDE support00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
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    F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectNGINX Plus
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    Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
    Score8.2 out of 10
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectNGINX Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    8.3
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectNGINX Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    My advice is if your firm build multi-cloud, high availability SaaS products or you just run polyglot workloads across kubernetes and VMs, then F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect is your guy. Coming from an expert, just start with a few core services or else you will be overwhelmed.
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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
    F5
    • Ease of use - standing up a new site took very little time, less then an hour.
    • Connecting the dots - the ease at standing up a load balancer and advertising it on CEs was simple and straight forward. Once you get familiar with the field layout it's very comparable to BIG-IP
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    F5
    • APIGW
    • Policy Enforcement
    • Centrally Manage API Traffic
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    Cons
    F5
    • User access roles should be more granular what we currently have
    • user interface should be user friendly
    • Setup process and guided workflows could add a user friendly process for first time users
    • log export from SIEM tool still require a manual intervention
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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
    F5
    At this point it has become too focal to our operations. An entire department could collapse if we dropped it now or in the near future. My experiences as mentioned in the previous questions tell of its gravity
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    F5
    No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it.
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    Usability
    F5
    Because it’s so straightforward. There’s not much to it.
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    F5
    Very easy to use
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    Performance
    F5
    From what we have been able to test load/responsiveness is quick and when we've tested out reporting and troubleshooting modules they have pulled the correct information in quick timeframes. We haven't been able to test out any software integration with Splunk of other software on our system since we are still in early POC stages but from what we've been told we should be able to implement that in our environment
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    F5
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    F5
    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
    F5
    -F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect provides more granular security policies with features like DOS, WAF etc and others lack -F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect provides high performance global network and other rely on public internet and impact is latency and it gives F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect a better user experience
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    F5
    The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
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    Return on Investment
    F5
    • Inconsistent policies and procedures and now its all seem to be sorted and now requires less support
    • Deployment cycle time was reduced and achieves a faster adoption of newly added contents
    • Saved migration cost and more gave durability to the existing setup
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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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