F5 Distributed Cloud enables users to deploy, connect, secure and operate applications across public, private, network and edge clouds. Distributed Cloud Services provides a variety of app-to-app networking and security capabilities that include a router, load balancer, network firewall, web app firewall (WAF), API security and API gateway into a single software stack and management portal.

Use Cases:

Web Application and API Protection. Protect web applications and APIs deployed across distributed environments with F5's industry-leading WAF, bot protection, L3-L7 DDoS defense, and API security.

Cloud Networking. Our cloud networking solution is a complete networking and security service for public or private clouds, streamlining the process for NetOps and DevOps. The solution solves the Inter-Cloud Transit challenge for NetOps via complete orchestration and automation of Transit Gateway, private inter-cloud connectivity via F5 Distributed Cloud's Global Backbone and granular segmentation of VPC-VPC traffic. Our proxy-based architecture solves the DevOps challenge of advertising Apps/APIs across clouds, at Layer 7, without worrying about the underlying networking and routing. DevOps can use our solution as an Ingress/Egress Kubernetes Controller for their Kubernetes based workloads. Our solution addresses SecOps challenge of simplifying the insertion of external security services, such as BIG-IP AWAF in the North-South and East-West traffic flow.

App Delivery Network. Deliver modern apps and microservices with unparalleled performance and scalability without servers, infrastructure software, or DevOps time. Host containerized app workloads at F5 regional edge locations, closer to users.

Optional feature add-ons.