I disagree that it is not expensive. If you&#x27;re launching a single instance then yes, it&#x27;s tolerable: $0.21&#x2F;hr or $1839 per year (very similar to their non-AMI pricing). Anything is tolerable at a low scale.<p>Now think about services that use nginx on every machine as a general purpose URL API interface. It&#x27;s not uncommon, why bother re-inventing the HTTP server wheel. At a previous company, a service I ran would have cost $3.6 million a year in nginx plus licensing fees. Almost none of the added &#x27;plus&#x27; features would have been at all useful.<p>If you see nginx plus as a way to pay for the core software then sure, maybe that cost is appropriate. I will not support them with per-server licensing of gated off features. Oh and by the way, nginx plus is closed source and is only available on a small handful of platforms, and doesn&#x27;t always maintain the same release schedule as the open source version, all as a way of supporting their licensing scheme.<p>I would support nginx via professional services and support fees, but only in conjunction with the open source release. So it&#x27;s up to them if they want that money or not.