🆚 Envoy vs. Nginx
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Nginx is much more popular than Envoy.
- 🌍 Nginx is more popular in all countries.
Envoy
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About
Envoy is a high-performance, open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures.
It provides advanced L4/L7 load balancing, HTTP/2 and gRPC proxying, service discovery integration, observability with distributed tracing and rich metrics, and dynamic configuration via xDS APIs.
Nginx is a lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy.
It supports serving static files, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, SSL/TLS termination with SNI, proxying and load balancing for HTTP, TCP and UDP traffic, and caching of FastCGI/uwsgi/memcached responses.
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Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Israel in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Mexico in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Web Servers category.
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