Sold by: Varnish Software Inc
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A supercharged version of Varnish Cache, for accelerating content delivery while protecting web services.
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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.
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Ubuntu 22.04
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
m5.large Recommended | $0.80 |
t3.micro | $0.80 |
t2.micro | $0.80 |
m5.xlarge | $0.80 |
m5zn.large | $0.80 |
c5n.large | $0.80 |
m5d.large | $0.80 |
i2.xlarge | $0.80 |
r5a.large | $0.80 |
m5n.xlarge | $0.80 |
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.
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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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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 "ubuntu", more detailed usage instructions please view: [ https://docs.varnish-software.com/varnish-cloud/get-started/aws/ ]
Resources
Support
Vendor support
Varnish Software offers a free getting started online-session that includes an introduction to the software, best practices and tips. cloudteam@varnish-software.com
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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Caching Mechanism
Advanced reverse proxy and HTTP accelerator with capability to reduce backend server load by up to 99%
Content Acceleration
Supports caching and delivery of multiple content types including websites, APIs, and video streaming with performance optimization
Infrastructure Protection
Enterprise-grade security features designed to protect critical web infrastructure and manage traffic variations
Proxy Architecture
Integrated multi-functional platform serving as content cache, reverse proxy, load balancer, API gateway, web server, and SSL terminator
Performance Optimization
Capability to accelerate content delivery and reduce streaming latency through advanced caching technologies
Load Balancing
Advanced HTTP/TCP/UDP load balancing with multiple load balancing methods and application health checks
SSL/TLS Offloading
Dual-stack RSA/ECC SSL/TLS offloading with support for HTTP/2 protocol
Web Server Capabilities
Integrated web server with content caching, WebSockets support, and web acceleration features
Authentication Mechanism
JWT authentication with rate limiting capabilities
High Availability Configuration
On-the-fly reconfiguration, session persistence, and status monitoring for enhanced application reliability
Web Application Security
Next-generation Web Application Firewall (WAF) that protects entire application portfolio with advanced threat detection capabilities
Content Delivery Network
Globally distributed network with strategically placed points of presence to move data and applications closer to end users
Edge Computing
Serverless computing platform enabling complex logic execution with high-performance code deployment at network edge
Real-time Observability
Provides comprehensive visibility and monitoring capabilities for applications and network performance
Programmable Platform
Flexible, distributed cloud infrastructure designed to complement major cloud providers with programmatic control mechanisms
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Customer reviews
Samantha L.
Exceptional Caching Performance and Customization
Reviewed on Dec 31, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Varnish offers remarkable caching performance for content, drastically increasing the speed for content delivery and amplifying the user’s experience
The app manages or controls backend load, where it reduces the bandwidth expenses and offload traffic
The program is robust in supporting private content delivery, and this increases the cache hit rates
Varnish is highly configurable, where admins have refined control on matters caching
The app gives brilliant customer experience with improved content and response delivery
The app manages or controls backend load, where it reduces the bandwidth expenses and offload traffic
The program is robust in supporting private content delivery, and this increases the cache hit rates
Varnish is highly configurable, where admins have refined control on matters caching
The app gives brilliant customer experience with improved content and response delivery
What do you dislike about the product?
Setting up and tuning Varnish is a big challenge and technical involvement is a must
The app is resource intensive, where it needs a big RAM for efficient cache storage
The app is resource intensive, where it needs a big RAM for efficient cache storage
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Varnish works effectively to reduce content latency and this improves the delivery time of users content
The program is vibrant enough to handle big traffic, something that ensures origin servers are not overloaded
The platform reduces the infrastructure load, where it significantly offload backend systems
The app boosts the efficiency of CDN and cache hit rates, and this limits the number of outages
Varnish Software is powerful protecting the web infrastructure, from ensuring that DDoS traffic is mitigated and there is fast delivery
The program is vibrant enough to handle big traffic, something that ensures origin servers are not overloaded
The platform reduces the infrastructure load, where it significantly offload backend systems
The app boosts the efficiency of CDN and cache hit rates, and this limits the number of outages
Varnish Software is powerful protecting the web infrastructure, from ensuring that DDoS traffic is mitigated and there is fast delivery
Sonalina C.
Exceptional Caching and Performance Boost
Reviewed on Dec 31, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Varnish Software offers exceptional caching support, which significantly improves users experience and ensures timely content delivery
The app is efficient in reducing backend load that largely lowers the bandwidth expenses
The tool has brilliant private content delivery options that largely supports public CDNs and improves on predictions
The admins gets powerful configuration guides, which gives them refined controls on caching
Customers get quality performance and faster responses through the help of this app
The app is efficient in reducing backend load that largely lowers the bandwidth expenses
The tool has brilliant private content delivery options that largely supports public CDNs and improves on predictions
The admins gets powerful configuration guides, which gives them refined controls on caching
Customers get quality performance and faster responses through the help of this app
What do you dislike about the product?
The configuration language if Varnish Software is complex and demands more learning
The tuning of Varnish to match the appropriate level can be difficult and challenging
The tuning of Varnish to match the appropriate level can be difficult and challenging
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The app speeds up content delivery to the public snd even the private consumers, and this improves the user experience
The app handles big traffic and high numbers of users without system overload
Varnish Software improves the efficiency of CDN, and this boosts the cache rates and stabilizes delivery
Varnish Software has brilliant protection capabilities for web infrastructure, which ensures high security and no threat issues.
The app maintains the content delivery speed and efficiency
The app handles big traffic and high numbers of users without system overload
Varnish Software improves the efficiency of CDN, and this boosts the cache rates and stabilizes delivery
Varnish Software has brilliant protection capabilities for web infrastructure, which ensures high security and no threat issues.
The app maintains the content delivery speed and efficiency
Sharath J.
Great Caching Performance, But Debugging Needs Improvement
Reviewed on Nov 06, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
deliver faster reliable web content through advance caching
What do you dislike about the product?
debugging is tricky some require manual fine tuning
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
requires manual fine tuning instead user friendly
Covenant L.
Great
Reviewed on Apr 30, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like that they are building tools to help organizations
What do you dislike about the product?
They need to pay more attention to their developers
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Increased scalability and reduced server load
Francesco U.
Using varnish for cdn
Reviewed on Nov 13, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
We use varnish in our developing cdn infrastructure
What do you dislike about the product?
it's powerful language is also steepy to learning at the beginning
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We need a cache in our cdn servers