Adam Brown

No way to tell which features you get with the license

• February 15, 2013
• Review verified by AWS Marketplace

Beware this license does not allow access to TrafficScript, which means the "Rules" tab is disabled. The only way to route traffic with this version is by port, so you cannot manage multiple apps using http headers and other features you'd expect from a layer 7 balancer. This is closer to a layer 4 load balancer as a result.

It is currently impossible to tell which features you are getting with which AMI for Stingray on the AWS marketplace. You have to install it and configure it before it actually shows you the license you just leased.

Here is what is included in this license, so future customers will know what they are getting:

Features: Stingray Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance 500 L 10
Yes - Advanced Connection Analytics
No - Application Firewall
No - Aptimizer
No - Bandwidth Management
Yes - Basic Content Routing
No - Event Mappings
No - Global Load Balancing
No - HTTP Caching
No - HTTP Compression
Yes - Load Balancing
Yes - Load balancing algorithms supported are: roundrobin,least connections
No - Multi-Site Cluster Management
No - Pool Autoscaling
No - Rate Shaping
Yes REST API
No - Service Level Monitoring
No - Service Protection
Yes - SSL Encryption/Decryption
No - TrafficScript *


* Note: The following feature is disabled likely as a result of this, and it is a major feature:
Rules catalog
Inspecting and rewriting traffic: Rules can be applied to a virtual server's requests and responses.

To riverbed: PLEASE PUBLISH THE EXACT FEATURE SET INCLUDED WITH EACH LICENSE FOR EACH AMI ON THE AWS MARKETPLACE. Your brochure does not contain detailed enough information about the license included with each AMI. I would consider revoking this negative review if this info was published, and I didn't now have to try out every, incrementally more expensive, license until I find one with the feature I need.

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