F5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer

Powerful DNS with Load Balancing and Disaster Recovery

Application load balancing

Leverage an expertly engineered global load balancing platform on infrastructure that ensures fast performance. This service is fully configurable via APIs, with DDoS protection and no appliances to manage.

Geo-location load balancing

Direct traffic to the nearest application instance and/or route traffic for GDPR compliancy. Split loads across compute instances. Detect failed or degraded resources instances and reroute clients.

Disaster recovery

Maintain high availability with disaster recovery. Automatically detect primary site failures, get zero-touch failover, and dynamically fail applications over to designated or available instances.

Product Overview

Ensure high availability and robust app performance in the cloud

F5’s cloud-based, intelligent DNS with global server load balancing (GSLB) efficiently directs application traffic across environments globally, performs health checks, and automates responses to activities and events to maintain high performance among apps.

Speed and simplicity

Seamlessly integrate into critical development workstreams and DevOps pipelines, allowing for configuring of critical DNS load balancing services in just a few clicks.

Flexibility and scale

Leverage global auto-scaling to keep up with demand as applications increase, traffic patterns change, and request volumes skyrocket. Adjust load balancing policies in real time, publish new apps almost instantaneously, and pay only for what you use.

Best-in-class security

Get built-in protection for web applications and APIs, including web application firewall (WAF), DDoS mitigation, API security, and bot protection.

Disaster recovery

Automatically detect primary site failures, get zero-touch failover, and dynamically fail applications over to your recovery-designated or available instances.

Core Capabilities

DevOps-friendly F5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer delivers the high performance, security, and global resiliency for apps—across clouds, geographies, and availability zones—that is expected by users in today's demanding environment.

Global location-based routing

With the global anycast network, clients are directed to the nearest application instance with geolocation-based load balancing for the best user experience.

Intelligent load balancing for improved uptime

Direct application traffic across environments, perform health checks, and automate responses to keep apps performing well. Get fully automated disaster recovery.

Intuitive interface with APIs

Manage services in an intuitive user interface or automate everything with declarative APIs.

ADC telemetry

Track performance, application health, and usage with basic visualization.

Layers of security

Comprehensive app security with automatic failover plus WAF, DDoS mitigation, API security, and bot defense.

Cloud-agnostic

Deploy and secure applications anywhere. Built on a global data plane to enable deployment and management of DNS, global server load balancing, and app protection, regardless of where your apps are located.

Experience and support

99.9% service guarantees with premium 24x7 technical support.

Introducing AI Assistant in the F5 Distributed Cloud Console

Streamline the delivery and security of distributed apps using a natural language interface that offers real-time insights, actionable recommendations, and concise summaries of extensive data reports – all within the F5 Distributed Cloud Console.