IBM Cloud Code Engine vs. NGINX Plus

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud Code Engine
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
IBM Cloud Code Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform that unifies the deployment of containers and applications including web apps, microservices, event-driven functions, or batch jobs. This serverless compute service aims to remove the burden of building, deploying, and managing workloads in Kubernetes so users can focus on writing code and not on the infrastructure that is needed to host it. With IBM Cloud Code Engine users can run any workload…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
IBM Cloud Code EngineNGINX 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
IBM Cloud Code EngineNGINX Plus
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details
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IBM Cloud Code EngineNGINX Plus
Features
IBM Cloud Code EngineNGINX Plus
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Code Engine
6.6
15 Ratings
16% below category average
NGINX Plus
-
Ratings
Scalability6.615 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration6.715 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Servers
Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Code Engine
-
Ratings
NGINX Plus
8.2
6 Ratings
3% above category average
IDE support00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Security management00 Ratings8.14 Ratings
Administration and management00 Ratings8.35 Ratings
Application server performance00 Ratings8.14 Ratings
Installation00 Ratings8.35 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings8.45 Ratings
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IBM Cloud Code EngineNGINX Plus
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Score 8.3 out of 10
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Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
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Score 9.2 out of 10
NGINX
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Score 9.8 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
NGINX
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Score 9.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM Cloud Code EngineNGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
6.6
(15 ratings)
8.4
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Usability
6.3
(11 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
IBM Cloud Code EngineNGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
It would be a good solution for running serverless applications. Because infrastructure setup and maintenance expenses can be avoided, the investment will pay for itself. The time to value is short, allowing IT to respond to business demands quickly. It aided us in customizing security as well as operating a personal project using to autoscale up and down approach. Also, because there isn't much hassle, items can be pushed into production as soon as possible. Simply push a container, create an application, and you're ready to go. But, It is less suited when you have a static machine or need to keep data in some way and do not want to utilize network storage or a database.
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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
IBM
  • Managed Environment for partners and customers - shifting skills and speed to CSP
  • A variety of programming model support
  • Elastic scalability for cloud native development and speed
  • Flexible consumption model
  • Containerized workloads with horizontal scalability
  • Here is an example - live demo walk-thru delivered to partners and community:
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBClYgpDFg
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F5
  • APIGW
  • Policy Enforcement
  • Centrally Manage API Traffic
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Cons
IBM
  • the pricing structure is complicated, and the servers are expensive. I really think they should offer better pricing options and support for more languages
  • sometimes the servers go down, and they take too long to respond to support tickets
  • uploading documents is slow since I have to do it one by one, making the process much longer than it should be
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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
IBM
Since this capability supports a wide variety of use cases - all on non proprietary and open technology based frameworks
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F5
No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it.
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Usability
IBM
Consumers can purchase individual components as well as unlocking new bundles with special features and services including the extensive data management governance capabilities of the Automation range. Kubernetes containerizing for effective service implementation and an agile, flexible multi-cloud data program help both utilization expansion and deployment to be improved by this architecture.
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F5
Very easy to use
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Support Rating
IBM
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
IBM
What impresses me most about IBM Cloud Code Engine is the container workload management capability and the Cloud services and dataflow monitoring functionalities. Data security and network security control via IBM Cloud Code Engine is quite excellent and very responsive data integration functions and the first deployment is not very technical.
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F5
The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • [One] positive is that we have one tool to learn (and a simple one) for all kinds of deployment. We need less people to maintain the system.
  • We have saved a lot of time on trouble shooting. It's clear how it works. It's "just" kubernetes..
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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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