Overview
Varnish Enterprise is a powerful, feature-rich reverse proxy and HTTP accelerator that speeds up websites and reduces streaming latency to deliver a great web experience to all users, at all times. Varnish caching technology is trusted by millions of websites worldwide to reduce backend server load by up to 99% while delivering all types of content much faster.
From the team behind the popular open-source Varnish Cache, Varnish Enterprise adds more features, more power and more flexibility for scaling up web services while protecting critical infrastructure. With enterprise-grade features and security at pay-as-you-go prices, it is the easy way to expand your reach and resilience while reducing the complexity of your web operations. You can even use it to build your own CDN.
Full support is also available through an additional subscription, with the Varnish team helping you deliver web services with high performance, reliability, security and scale. Visit us at https://www.varnish-software.com/support/ to purchase support as an add-on.
For a complete feature list, go to https://www.varnish-software.com/softwareandvmods/ .
Highlights
- Reliably excellent web performance - Deliver websites, APIs and video 300% faster with caching and an origin shield that helps your web service thrive under pressure: no more downtime.
- Reduced costs and complexity - A lightweight but feature-rich solution that lowers costs while bringing new simplicity to web operations, with integrated content cache, reverse proxy, load balancer, API gateway, web server, and SSL terminator.
- Quick to deploy and scale - Be up and running in minutes to scale up content delivery, protect against traffic spikes and extend your web services reach.
Details
Typical total price
$0.925/hour
Pricing
Free trial
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Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t2.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.80 | $0.026 | $0.826 |
t2.small | $0.80 | $0.038 | $0.838 |
t2.medium | $0.80 | $0.075 | $0.875 |
t2.large | $0.80 | $0.122 | $0.922 |
t2.xlarge | $0.80 | $0.243 | $1.043 |
t3.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.80 | $0.039 | $0.839 |
t3.small | $0.80 | $0.05 | $0.85 |
t3.medium | $0.80 | $0.07 | $0.87 |
t3.large | $0.80 | $0.112 | $0.912 |
t3.xlarge | $0.80 | $0.224 | $1.024 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
Varnish Enterprise (VE) can be cancelled at any time. You will only be billed for time and transfer that is actually used while an AWS instance running VE is active.
Legal
Vendor terms and conditions
Content disclaimer
Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Additional details
Usage instructions
In your image, you will see two "varnishd" processes running one is the master process and the other is a child process. Varnish Enterprise listens by default on TCP port 80 where it expects to receive HTTP requests.
The easiest way to administer the varnish node is to use the Varnish Controller which provides a single point of control for all Varnish server administration. To add a varnish node to the Varnish Controller "varnish-controller-agent" needs to be configured. The "varnish-agent" is used by the Varnish Custom Statistics (VCS) which enables real-time statistics allowing you to aggregate, display and analyze user traffic.
Connect to your ec2 instance with ssh using username "ec2-user", more detailed usage instructions please view: [ https://docs.varnish-software.com/varnish-cloud/get-started/aws/ ]
Resources
Support
Vendor support
Varnish Software offers a getting started online-session that includes an introduction to the software, best practices and tips. Cloud customers need to register to get access to software updates. Registration for updates and an online introduction is done by filling out the form available at https://www.varnish-software.com/enable-cloud-subscription/ . Support is available through an additional subscription. Read at https://www.varnish-software.com/support/ about support services or contact sale
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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Customer reviews
Completely Misleading Product
Despite including the phrases "Full support is also available" and "Visit us at https://www.varnish-software.com/support/ to activate support", this product contains no support from Varnish.
Instead, when you contact them to try and activate support, they tell you they can't offer you support for this product and then try to sell you a separate subscription that includes support. Why are you even selling your software here if you won't support it? Unbelievable.