F5 Distributed Cloud Platform

The F5 Distributed Cloud Platform unifies cloud, data center, and edge to connect, protect, and run apps anywhere.

Common Management and Services Across Different Environments

Cross-cloud agility

Unified management of infrastructure and workloads across multiple compute environments creates flexible deployment, simple and secure app-to-app interconnection, and consistent policy enforcement across cloud, data center, and edge.

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Operational simplicity

An integrated, automated, and consistent set of SaaS-based services in every environment reduces management effort and misconfigurations, and improves cross-team coordination and productivity.

Improved app deployment and observability

Flexible and scalable deployment of modern apps and legacy VMs brings the workload to the data or to the user, with end-to-end network visibility, API mapping and security, and app analytics and observability.

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Integrated multi-layer security

Advanced protection keeps threats from reaching applications, including DDoS, network and web app firewalls, and static and dynamic API security to protect services regardless of origin and documentation, leveraging cross-site orchestrated origin and destination identity.

Product Overview

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Virtual services with a real network

The Distributed Cloud Platform is a modern SaaS-based platform that delivers integrated networking and security services and unified cross-environment workload orchestration across distributed infrastructures.

SaaS console

Logically centralized multi-tenant console for global cross-functional control, observability, orchestration, and automation at scale.

F5 Global Network

Multi-TBps global transit backbone, heavily peered to public cloud and SaaS, with Regional Edge compute points of presence (PoPs) near major global metros.

Distributed Cloud App Stack

Application execution stack, including distributed Kubernetes, identity management, zero-knowledge secret management, and continuous app validation

Distributed Cloud Mesh

Networking and security stack, with BGP router, VPN, cluster ingress/egress, ADC, TCP/HTTP proxy, WAF, API security, and ML-based anomaly detection.


Core Capabilities

Delivering distributed services for deploying, connecting, securing, and operating applications and data across the edge, multiple clouds, and our global network.


Application management
Multi-site K8s deployment and lifecycle management
Global orchestration
Automated network and security controls per app
Full stack observability
Visitors, health, performance, and security analytics
End-to-end visibility
Integrated view of all networking and security at all sites
Application management
Multi-site K8s deployment and lifecycle management
Global orchestration
Automated network and security controls per app
Full stack observability
Visitors, health, performance, and security analytics
End-to-end visibility
Integrated view of all networking and security at all sites

Platform Support and Integrations

Broad platform and cloud provider support

Distributed Cloud Services can be delivered to apps running on any platform on any public/private cloud. Connect and secure apps running in VMs, containers, bare metal, or serverless.

google cloud
amazon aws
microsoft azure
VMWare
ibm cloud
Red Hat Openshift

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