Feature comparison

Compare NGINXaaS for Azure with other NGINX offerings.

Load Balancer	NGINX Open Source	NGINX Plus	NGINXaaS for Azure
HTTP and TCP/UDP support
Layer 7 request routing
Session persistence			Sticky Cookie and Sticky Route only
Active health checks
DNS service-discovery integration
Content Cache	NGINX Open Source	NGINX Plus	NGINXaaS for Azure
Static and dynamic content caching
Cache-purging API
Web Server and Reverse Proxy	NGINX Open Source	NGINX Plus	NGINXaaS for Azure
Origin server for static content
Reverse proxy: HTTP, FastCGl, memcached, SCGI, uwsgi			HTTP, Fast CGI
HTTPS/2 gateway
gRPC proxy
HTTPS/2 server push
HTTPS/3
Security Controls	NGINX Open Source	NGINX Plus	NGINXaaS for Azure
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	NGINX Open Source	NGINX Plus	NGINXaaS for Azure
Export to external monitoring tools			Export metrics to Azure Monitor
Built-in dashboard			Azure Monitor and Azure Portal
Extended status with 100+ additional metrics
High Availability (HA)	NGINX Open Source	NGINX Plus	NGINXaaS for Azure
Active-active
Active-passive			Not Applicable
Configuration synchronization across cluster
State sharing: sticky-learn session persistence, rate limiting, key-value stores
Programmability	NGINX Open Source	NGINX Plus	NGINXaaS for Azure
NGINX JavaScript module
NGINX Plus API for dynamic reconfiguration
Key-value store
Dynamic reconfiguration without process reloads
Streaming Media	NGINX Open Source	NGINX Plus	NGINXaaS for Azure
Live streaming: RTMP, HLS, DASH
VOD: Flash (FLV), MP4
Adaptive bitrate VOD: HLS HDS
MP4 bandwidth controls
Third-party ecosystem	NGINX Open Source	NGINX Plus	NGINXaaS for Azure
Ingress controller
OpenShift Router
Dynamic modules repository			Image-Filter njs OpenTelemetry XSLT
Deployable as a service			Microsoft Azure
Commercial support