Overview

F5 Distributed Cloud Services is a comprehensive platform that unifies cloud, data center, and edge environments to connect, protect, and manage applications anywhere. It offers a suite of SaaS-based services designed to simplify operations, enhance security, and improve application performance across distributed infrastructures.

Features and Benefits

Unified Management

• Centralized console for global control, observability, orchestration, and automation.
• Consistent policy enforcement across cloud, data center, and edge environments. Operational Simplicity
• Integrated, automated services reduce management effort and misconfigurations.
• Improved cross-team coordination and productivity. Enhanced App Deployment and Observability
• Flexible deployment of modern apps and legacy VMs.
• End-to-end network visibility, API mapping, and app analytics. Integrated Multi-Layer Security
• Advanced protection including DDoS, network and web app firewalls, and API security.
• Cross-site orchestrated identity management for origin and destination. Global Network
• Multi-TBps global transit backbone with regional edge compute points of presence.
• Heavily peered to public cloud and SaaS providers. Distributed Cloud App Stack
• Includes distributed Kubernetes, identity management, and continuous app validation.
• Zero-knowledge secret management for enhanced security. Multi-Cloud Networking
• Cross-site app-to-app service discovery and zero trust interconnect.
• API management with discovery, mapping, access policies, and delivery. Full Stack Observability
• Comprehensive analytics for visitors, health, performance, and security.
• Integrated view of all networking and security across sites.