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Nova is a centrally managed, container-based ADC platform providing Layer 7 load balancing, GSLB, WAF and web acceleration. Nova is cloud-native, hyperscale and intelligent.

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Software load balancing, web acceleration, WAF and global DNS load balancer. Blazing fast throughputs, high SSL TPS and runs on any cloud, VM or bare metal.

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Compare Snapt ADCs with Amazon ELB and ALB Load Balancers

Snapt software and cloud native load balancers help supercharge your Amazon AWS deployments and provide substantially more features than Amazon's Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) and Application Load Balancer (ALB).

All Snapt ADCs (Nova and Aria) come with a powerful load balancer, web application firewall (WAF), GSLB and web accelerator for AWS, and can be launched in the Amazon marketplace.

Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) and ALB (application load balancer) provide only the bare essentials for load balancing. They don't offer WAF, GSLB, advanced health monitoring or other key features, and they can become complex and expensive if you need to scale out.
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    Key Information: Comparing Snapt and AWS Load Balancers

    Application security

    Snapt Nova and Aria include a Web Application Firewall (WAF) to filter HTTP / Layer 7 traffic. AWS Elastic Load Balancer does not have a WAF and you can't run a WAF in front of ELB.

    Log files for ELB activity

    Snapt Nova and Aria include comprehensive monitoring, health checks and reporting, and the metrics are available over API. In AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) there are no external connectors or APIs for accessing logs in DataDog, NewRelic and cloud-native time-series DBs.

    Rules, policies and custom settings

    Snapt Nova and Aria support custom rules, policies and settings for more complicated applications. AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) does not support rules or policies and does not allow for customized settings for retries and timeouts.

    Internal load balancing

    Snapt Nova and Aria are designed for high-performance internal east-west load balancing between components and microservices. AWS Elastic Load Balancer does not support internal load balancing – you have to send traffic back out to the public internet, adding a significant security risk.

    Controlling Costs

    Snapt Nova and Aria help keep costs down as you scale out to meet demand. Our SaaS-style pricing is transparent and gives you discounts as you grow. With Elastic Load Balancer, you’ll pay linearly for the load balancers as you scale out, and for the processed bytes/hr, and for the network costs of moving between AWS zones.

    Using Multiple Clouds

    Snapt Nova balances, protects, scales and monitors multiple clouds simultaneously, providing resilient DNS and intelligent disaster recovery. ELB is designed to only work with AWS.

     

     

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    WAF
    security and protection    		      
    GSLB
    global load balancing    		      
    Multi-Cloud
    integrated multi-cloud deployments    		 You can run standalone ADCs in any environment.   Balance, protect and scale multiple clouds simultaneously.  
    Centralized Management
    control plane    		      
    ADC Autoscaling
    scale-out / scale-in    		      
    Internal Load Balancing
    east-west load balancing inside your network    		      
    Machine Learning and AI enhancement
    intelligent security assessment and response    		      
    AWS integration
    complete API and Amazon Marketplace integration    		      

    Snapt Aria software load balancer

    Layer 7 load balancing, web acceleration, WAF and global DNS load balancer. Blazing fast throughputs, high SSL TPS and runs on any cloud, VM or bare metal.

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    Snapt Nova cloud load balancer

    Nova is a centrally managed, container-friendly ADC platform providing Layer 7 load balancing, GSLB, WAF and web acceleration. Nova is cloud-native, hyperscale and intelligent.

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    What to Consider Before Adopting Amazon’s Classic ELB (Elastic Load Balancer) Load Balancer

    9 things everyone should consider before leaving the load balancing to Amazon ELB.

    For startups and DevOps teams running small projects, spinning up a load balancer is on the checklist of things to prepare for scale. If your primary compute environment is Amazon Web Services, then the fastest and easiest option is to provision Amazon’s basic Elastic Load Balancer (ELB).

    Here are some of the questions you should ask yourself as part of your decision.

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    Nova has been a colossal success in our organization. It has quickly become an integral part of our products, services and even internal processes. Such a dynamic, secure, and performant ADC is a game changer.

     – Ben Erridge, CTO, CIM Inc.

    By listing Snapt’s solution on Marketplace, we make it even easier for DigitalOcean to provide its community of four million developers with the tools they need to easily scale, secure, accelerate and monitor their applications.

    – John Gannon, Manager Marketplace & Ecosystems at DigitalOcean

    Nova is the first ADC solution to overcome the challenges of hyperscale networks with global reach. It is the first and only ADC to incorporate AI-based security and scaling.

    – Dave Blakey, CTO, Snapt

    The application is easy to use and their support is outstanding!

     – Matt Rhoades, Navitas Solutions

    We are happy to say that Snapt has never had a single glitch that could result in downtime.

    – Felipe Cruz Ferrero, RackNation

    Response times from the customer service team were under five minutes.

    – Ian Barnes, BetTech Gaming

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