Rapid adoption of cloud-native architectures is driving the IaaS-first approach for infrastructure teams charged with deploying and operating application delivery solution components. And as more organizations take a cloud-native approach, Application Delivery Controllers as a Service (ADCaaS) are playing an increasingly important role in delivering applications securely, efficiently, and seamlessly—from load balancing and traffic optimization to advanced observability and infrastructure automation.
While the default ADCaaS tools built into a cloud platform are often sufficient to power the most common scenarios and use cases, they might not always satisfy the highly specific requirements of an organization’s application architecture.
Today, we are thrilled to announce F5 NGINXaaS for Google Cloud, our advanced, fully managed, and Kubernetes-friendly SaaS load balancer and application delivery controller as a part of the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP). By combining F5’s application delivery expertise with the flexibility and scalability of Google Cloud, F5 NGINXaaS bridges the gap between general-purpose ADCaaS capabilities and advanced, highly unique application requirements.
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Reliability, performance, and control without the extra toil
F5 NGINXaaS for Google Cloud is the result of a deeply collaborative engineering effort between F5 and Google to natively host the service, offering users a seamless experience and access to advanced functions that complement cloud-native capabilities. Customers get secured, dedicated deployments to ensure reliability, performance, and control—all without extra operational toil. We have also developed integration points into Google Cloud services.
Application proximity of F5 NGINXaaS ensures lightning-fast response time, while offering granular control of application-specific policies and rules. F5 NGINXaaS’ programmable data plane with embedded NGINX JavaScript makes it possible to unlock virtually unlimited possibilities in customizing application behavior, while creating bespoke configurations that adhere to unique business requirements.
“By combining F5’s application delivery expertise with the flexibility and scalability of Google Cloud, F5 NGINXaaS bridges the gap between general-purpose ADCaaS capabilities and advanced, highly unique application requirements.”
F5 NGINXaaS provides a unified tool that supports both Layer 4 and Layer 7 traffic management along with built-in security—reducing complexity and tool sprawl through technology consolidation. Beyond its integrated functionality, F5 NGINXaaS works seamlessly with core Google Cloud services such as Google Cloud Secret Manager and Google Cloud Monitoring, simplifying the technology stack and optimizing operational workflows.
Rich performance metrics are pushed from F5 NGINXaaS into cloud-native monitoring tools, enabling deeper insights into application and AI health and performance. They also help customers manage SLAs and optimize infrastructure without having to switch between toolsets.
Secure, high-performing apps and AI workloads in the cloud
F5 NGINXaaS for Google Cloud supports high-performing cloud apps and AI workloads through several key application delivery and management capabilities:
- Simplified workload deployment: F5 NGINXaaS for Google Cloud can help eliminate operational toil and streamline the provisioning, management, and integration of cloud-native app delivery solutions.
- Optimized application performance: The solution also enables intelligent and adaptive load balancing for distributing traffic across upstream servers based on factors like performance and availability. Non-disruptive reconfiguration, rate limiting, circuit breaking, and request buffering can also be utilized to prevent connection issues during peak workloads.
- Enhanced protection: Authentication and authorization features, including token validation and rate limiting, help protect AI applications and APIs, and end-to-end encryption ensures secure connectivity.
Unlocking advanced capabilities and customer choice
Between the advanced application delivery capabilities and the tight integrations with native cloud services, F5 NGINXaaS for Google Cloud delivers on some key customer benefits.
A low-touch path and seamless integration with the cloud-native experience make it easy to adopt and manage the F5 NGINXaaS for Google Cloud solution. Organizations can accelerate cloud adoption and simplify the application modernization journeywith reduced risk and operational overhead, and less need for specialized skills. And with less time spent on infrastructure maintenance, teams free up time for critical initiatives such as modernizing application logic.
Customers can also capitalize on our “better together” synergies that unlock advanced capabilities and customer choice. For example, Google Cloud load balancing can handle global high-scale traffic, while F5 NGINXaaS provides the advanced application-specific features behind it, such as session stickiness, a technique used to ensure requests from a specific session are directed to the same server for consistency. Other examples include advanced high availability and disaster recovery scenarios. This gives teams the flexibility to meet a wider variety of demanding application and AI requirements.
By unlocking advanced use cases powered by flexible programmability, enhanced customization, better scaling, and improved observability, F5 NGINXaaS for Google Cloud offers a tailored ADCaaS solution that brings agility, security, flexibility, and reliability to an organization’s applications running in Google Cloud.
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