Feature comparison

Compare NGINXaaS for Azure with other NGINX offerings.

Product Features
 
NGINX Open
Source
NGINX Plus
 
NGINXaaS
for Azure
Load Balancer
  HTTP and TCP/UDP support HTTP and TCP only
  Layer 7 request routing
  Session persistence Sticky Cookie and
Sticky Route only
  Active health checks
  DNS service-discovery integration
Content Cache
  Static and dynamic content caching
  Cache-purging API
Web Server and Reverse Proxy
  Origin server for static content
  Reverse proxy: HTTP, FastCGl,
  memcached, SCGI, uwsgi
HTTP, Fast CGI
  HTTPS/2 gateway
  gRPC proxy
  HTTPS/2 server push
NGINX Open
Source
NGINX Plus
 
NGINXaaS
for Azure
Security Controls
  HTTP basic authentication
  HTTP authentication subrequests
  IP address-based access control lists
  Rate limiting
  Dual-stack RSA/ECC SSL/TLS offload
  TLS 1.3 support
  JWT authentication
  OpenID Connect single sign-on
  (sso)
  NGINX App Protect (additional cost)
Monitoring
  Export to external monitoring tools Export metrics to
Azure Monitor
  Built-in dashboard
  Extended status with 100+
  additional metrics
High Availability (HA)
  Active-active
  Active-passive
  Configuration synchronization
  across cluster
  State sharing: sticky-learn session
  persistence, rate limiting, key-value
  stores
NGINX Open
Source
NGINX Plus
 
NGINXaaS
for Azure
Programmability
  NGINX JavaScript module
  NGINX Plus API for dynamic
  reconfiguration
  Key-value store
  Dynamic reconfiguration without
  process reloads
Graceful restart
Streaming Media
  Live streaming: RTMP, HLS, DASH
  VOD: Flash (FLV), MP4
  Adaptive bitrate VOD: HLS HDS
  MP4 bandwidth controls
Third-party ecosystem
  Ingress controller
  OpenShift Router
  Dynamic modules repository Only njs
  Deployable as a service Microsoft Azure
  Commercial support