Feature comparison
Compare NGINXaaS for Azure with other NGINX offerings.
| Product Features |
NGINX Open Source |
NGINX Plus |
NGINXaaS for Azure |
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| Load Balancer | |||
| HTTP and TCP/UDP support | HTTP and TCP only | ||
| Layer 7 request routing | |||
| Session persistence | Sticky Cookie and Sticky Route only |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
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| NGINX App Protect (additional cost) | |||
| Monitoring | |||
| Export to external monitoring tools | Export metrics to Azure Monitor |
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| Built-in dashboard | |||
| Extended status with 100+ additional metrics |
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| High Availability (HA) | |||
| Active-active | |||
| Active-passive | |||
| Configuration synchronization across cluster |
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| State sharing: sticky-learn session persistence, rate limiting, key-value stores |
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| NGINX Open Source |
NGINX Plus |
NGINXaaS for Azure |
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| Programmability | |||
| NGINX JavaScript module | |||
| NGINX Plus API for dynamic reconfiguration |
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| 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 |