Handle Up to 3.05 Times the NGINX Connections with AWS C6i or R6i Instances Featuring 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors with Crypto Acceleration

Description

For Both Compute-Optimized and Memory-Optimized Instances, Using Crypto Acceleration Improved Performance

Encrypting network connections using SSL/TLS helps keep consumer data safe as they send personal data over the internet. Organizations use NGINX—an open-source web server application—as a reverse proxy, load balancer, or mail proxy. Whether your organization runs NGINX on AWS compute-optimized or memory-optimized instances, choosing 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Crypto Acceleration can improve performance.

3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors offer Intel QuickAssist Technology (Intel QAT) with Crypto Acceleration. Intel QAT and Intel QAT Engine (OpenSSL Engine) accelerate hardware and software based on vectorized instructions to speed cryptographic operations and allow more users to connect at a time. We tested NGINX performance with and without Crypto Acceleration on two instance types: compute-optimized (C6i) and memory-optimized (R6i). We found that for both instance types, adding Crypto Acceleration with Intel QAT resulted in more connections per second for NGINX workloads.