The NGINX team aims to provide an "easy on-ramp" for enterprises looking to leverage software load balancers, API gateways and service meshes as appropriate to their current technology landscape ...

The NGINX Application Platform combines a reverse proxy, cache, load balancer, API gateway, and WAF into a single, dynamic application gateway for north-south app and API traffic.

Nginx API Management Module is built on an architecture that provides control‑plane functionality with Nginx Plus, an API gateway.