2

I tried to find alternative of nginx on aws, and found only route 53. Is it the same service or no? Does aws has alternative nginx?

Improve this question

2 Answers 2

Reset to default
10

NGINX is a web server which can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTP cache (Wikipedia). It is software that runs on an operating system (eg Linux, Windows).

There is no equivalent provided by AWS. You can run NGINX on an Amazon EC2 instance.

The closest equivalents on AWS would be:

  • Using Amazon S3 to serve static web content
  • Using Elastic Load Balancer to distribute traffic to multiple Amazon EC2 instances
  • Using Amazon CloudFront to cache content in multiple geographic locations

Amazon Route 53 is a DNS service for resolving domain names, which is not base NGINX functionality (although NGINX can handle virtual hosts, which overlaps a bit with DNS).

Improve this answer
Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

1 Comment

You can't really create custom urls with those options. E.g. in nginx I map /contact-us/ to a completely different url, but none of the above services have to do with that.
0

Lambda @ Edge sitting in front of a Cloudfront distribution can replace many of the functionalities of Nginx

Improve this answer

1 Comment

Your answer could be improved with additional supporting information. Please edit to add further details, such as citations or documentation, so that others can confirm that your answer is correct. You can find more information on how to write good answers in the help center.

Start asking to get answers

Find the answer to your question by asking.

Ask question

Explore related questions

See similar questions with these tags.