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Advanced load balancing and traffic control for cloud native applications, APIs, and AI workloads
Overview
F5 Application Delivery Service for AWS is a fully managed Application Delivery Controller as a Service (ADCaaS) that is powered by NGINX and provides advanced load balancing, traffic management and optimization, security, and API control for the most demanding cloud-native workloads. It acts as a central control plane for application, API, and AI traffic, enabling consistent routing, policy enforcement, and scalability across environments; without the burden of managing underlying infrastructure, helping optimize cloud costs and reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). While AWSs native load balancing services address standard traffic distribution scenarios, F5 Application Deliver Service extends these capabilities with fine grained routing, flexible programmability, and enhanced control, making it well suited for architectures with more complex performance or customization requirements. Available with consumption-based pricing through AWSMarketplace, it enables organizations to get started quickly while aligning usage with existing cloud spend commitments, helping streamline procurement and maximize the value of their cloud investment. F5 Application Delivery Service supports a range of advanced use cases, including:
- High throughput cloud native applications that require reliable performance under heavy or burst traffic.
- AI inference workloads that depend on low latency and efficient request handling.
- Distributed, multi cluster Kubernetes architectures requiring centralized traffic control and failover.
- Advanced API traffic management with flexible routing and policy enforcement.
Features and benefits By combining F5s application traffic management expertise with the flexibility and scalability of AWS, F5 Application Delivery Service provides:
- Scalable performance: Maintain a consistent user experience and meet strict SLAs with adaptive load balancing, intelligent traffic distribution, and support for high throughput, latency sensitive workloads.
- Advanced traffic control and customization: Define routing behavior and policies with precision using flexible configuration, programmable logic, and support for complex traffic patterns tailored to your application needs.
- Deep observability and insights: Gain visibility into traffic patterns and system health with real time and historical data across 200+ metrics, helping teams optimize performance and identify issues quickly.
- Integrated security controls: Secure applications and APIs with built in authentication, authorization, role based access control, encryption, rate limiting, and web application firewall (WAF) capabilities.
- Technology consolidation: Simplify your architecture by combining Layer 4 and 7 load balancing, traffic management, reverse proxy capabilities, and security controls into a single, unified cloud stack.
- Seamless AWS integration: Operate natively within AWS using integrations with networking, identity, security, and monitoring services, ensuring consistent behavior across environments.
Highlights
- Advanced Traffic & API Control Goes beyond standard load balancing by serving as a central control plane for application, API, and AI traffic, offering fine grained routing, flexible programmability, and consistent policy enforcement.
- Architectural Consolidation Simplifies cloud infrastructure by combining Layer 4 and7 load balancing, traffic management, reverse proxy, and built in security controls (like rate limiting and WAF) into a single, unified cloud stack.
- Seamless Integration & Procurement Operates natively within the AWS ecosystem and is available via the AWS Marketplace with consumption based pricing, allowing organizations to count usage toward existing cloud spend commitments.
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Pricing is based on actual usage, with charges varying according to how much you consume. Subscriptions have no end date and may be canceled any time.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/unit |
|---|---|---|
Regional tier 1 - base | Base for tier 1 regions | $0.00034 |
Regional tier 1 - NCU | Capacity for tier 1 regions | $0.00017 |
Regional tier 1 - data transferred | Data transferred for tier 1 regions | $0.00001 |
Regional tier 2 - base | Base for tier 2 regions | $0.00038 |
Regional tier 2 - NCU | Capacity for tier 2 regions | $0.00019 |
Regional tier 2 - data transferred | Data transferred for tier 2 regions | $0.00001 |
Regional tier 3 - base | Base for tier 3 regions | $0.00043 |
Regional tier 3 - NCU | Capacity for tier 3 regions | $0.00022 |
Regional tier 3 - data transferred | Data transferred for tier 3 regions | $0.00001 |
Dimensions summary
You pay based on usage, grouped into three regional tiers that reflect where your deployment runs. Each tier has the same three charge types. The base charge covers running a deployment in that region. The NGINX Capacity Unit (NCU) charge measures compute capacity, which scales up or down with traffic and respects a reserved minimum. The data transferred charge tracks traffic volume. Your cost rises as you add capacity, move more data, or run in more regions. Tier placement depends on which supported region hosts your deployment, so pricing varies by geography.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
An NCU measures the compute capacity of your deployment based on its underlying resources. It lets you specify capacity without accounting for hardware differences between regions. You set a reserved minimum, and the deployment scales up or down with traffic. Billing never drops below your reserved minimum.
The deployment scales capacity down automatically as traffic falls, which reduces your NCU charge. It will not scale below the reserved minimum you set, so you keep paying for at least that reserved capacity. Capacity scales back up automatically when traffic rises again.
All three charges apply together within each regional tier where you run a deployment. The base covers running the deployment, the NCU charge tracks compute capacity, and data transferred tracks traffic volume. Compute-heavy deployments see NCU dominate, while high-traffic deployments see data transferred weigh more.
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