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application development use cases with
consumption models that resonate no
matter where customers may be in their
cloud migration journey. The company
currently extends its portfolio with a new
delivery model that leverages the AWS SaaS
Enablement Framework for its market-
leading application services.
“Customers are increasingly looking for
easy-to-consume, advanced SaaS-based
application services for security and
application delivery,” said Venu Aravamudan,
SVP and General Manager of F5 Cloud
Services. “F5’s advanced application
delivery and security capabilities will now be
delivered as modern, DevOps-centric SaaS
solutions aligned with AWS best practices.”
Terry Wise, VP, WW Partners at AWS, said:
“Using the AWS SaaS Factory and AWS SaaS
Enablement Framework, we were able to help
F5 architect, develop, and deploy their new
Cloud Services platform on AWS. Customers
can now consume F5 solutions in a SaaS
model, while enabling developers to innovate
without having to worry about managing
infrastructure or the underlying code.”
F5 Cloud Services provide high-availability,
self-service, and fully managed SaaS
solutions that are easily provisioned
and configured within minutes on AWS.
As enterprise-grade offerings, they are
designed to support modern deployment
scenarios such as cloud-native applications,
microservices, and container-based
environments. Consumed as a utility
through a pay-as-you-go model in the
AWS Marketplace, F5 Cloud Services offer
predictable pricing, flexibility, and the
ability to auto-scale to meet application
workload demands.
F5 Cloud Services also deliver foundational
security capabilities and will offer additional
protections through future services that
allow companies to configure and automate
defences for multiple attack vectors. Offering
F5 capabilities through a SaaS delivery
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model provides an extensible framework
to deliver additional services as needed
over time, and throughout an application’s
development and production lifecycle.
By introducing F5 Cloud Services to the
market in a continuous fashion, F5 is
prioritising a repeatable framework that
delivers new SaaS offerings as quickly and
seamlessly as possible.
Secondary DNS Cloud Services are currently
launching in the AWS Marketplace, with a
global server load balancing offer available
in preview, and new security capabilities
– including web application security
protections designed to defend against
existing and emerging application threats –
coming soon.
F5 Cloud Services also represent a new way
of delivering capabilities to a wide range of
companies that are looking to conveniently
layer application services as needed, taking
its cues from the same types of agile
development methodologies favoured by
modern application developers.
Expanding on the preview introduced at
last year’s AWS re:Invent conference, F5
continues a strategic shift around innovative
Venu Aravamudan, SVP and General
Manager of F5 Cloud Services
offerings best suited for how organisations,
from start-ups to large enterprises, are
deploying and consuming applications and
services in the cloud.
Enjoy ultimate flexibility in a
managed SaaS offering
F5 Cloud Services have been designed
around the ways that modern enterprises are
developing and launching applications in the
public cloud. With an intuitive user interface
for low-touch configurations that can be fully
automated via comprehensive declarative
APIs, the solution enables developers and
DevOps engineers to integrate the power
of application services with CI/CD practices
for optimised performance throughout the
lifecycle of applications.
• Gain visibility for actionable insights
and efficient services consumption
Customers enjoy real-time visibility
and analytics on usage, consumption,
performance, and billing with detailed
reporting and visualisation tools. This
level of clarity provides myriad insights to
enhance the way application resources are
provisioned, secured and consumed in an
always-available cloud delivery platform.
• Apply dependable application security
without being a security expert
F5’s new services are designed to help
cloud-first organisations and developers
confidently secure their applications so they
can stay focused on what apps do best:
provide business value. F5 Cloud Services’
growing set of security-focused offerings
give customers a simple, comprehensive
way to provide a standard set of services
to assure that applications are protected
at each stage of development and into the
production pipeline.
“As an early adopter of cloud-based DNS
services, we’re already seeing the benefits
of deploying secondary authoritative
DNS solutions in the cloud,” said Joshua
Becigneul, ADC Engineer at Secure-24. “It
simplifies DNS management, allowing us to
move faster without sacrificing performance
or security. We had secondary DNS up
and running with F5 Cloud Services in just
a few clicks and are looking forward to its
predictable pay-as-you-go pricing.” n
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