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F5 Distributed Cloud Services

SaaS-based services to connect, protect, and operate applications across cloud, data center, and edge.

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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Centralized control

Logically centralized SaaS control plane for policy, observability, orchestration, and automation across distributed environments.

Global private network

F5-managed private backbone with globally distributed points of presence to deliver secure, high-performance connectivity across cloud, data center, and edge.

Distributed edge

Deployable software nodes in cloud, data center, or edge environments to run application services with consistent security, networking, and policy enforcement.

Integrated services

Built-in security, networking, and delivery services applied consistently across all environments—without stitching together point solutions.


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

Integrations and ecosystem support

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