F5 NGINXaaS for Azure

Take your application delivery and security in Microsoft Azure to the next level with a fully managed ADCaaS solution powered by the fast, reliable, and secure NGINX data plane.


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Optimize, Scale, and Secure Cloud-Native Applications in Microsoft Azure

Improve user experiences

F5 NGINXaaS for Azure ensures consistent performance with lightning-fast response time during request spikes, extremely high request rates, or backend service failures.

  • Adaptive Load Balancing: Optimize workload distribution with dynamic auto-scaling, least-time load balancing, and active health checks.
  • Advanced Traffic Patterns: Empower seamless rollouts of application changes and new features with blue-green and canary deployments, and A/B testing out-of-the-box.
  • Seamless Connectivity: Leverage dynamic reconfiguration, rate limiting, circuit breaking, and request buffering to prevent connection timeouts and errors during peak workloads.


Improve user experience
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Gain better insight

With detailed visibility into the health and performance of your applications, F5 NGINXaaS for Azure enables you to speed up troubleshooting, quickly find the root cause of app connectivity issues, and improve uptime and SLAs.

  • Granular Metrics: Access over 200 detailed real-time metrics to monitor traffic patterns and application health, quickly identifying issues and ensuring smooth operations.
  • Proactive Monitoring: Reduce outages and downtime by discovering problems before they impact your users, and plan with confidence by identifying workload trends using historical data.
  • Seamless Integration: Collect, monitor, and analyze data through native integrations with Azure Monitor or your favorite ecosystem tools, such as Grafana.

Mitigate cybersecurity threats

F5 NGINXaaS for Azure’s strong security controls protect cloud-native applications and microservices from code to customer without adding extra complexity and overhead or slowing down performance.

  • Secure Access: Control user and service identities and their authorized access and actions with JSON Web Tokens (JWT), OpenID Connect (OIDC), and role-based access control (RBAC).
  • Protected Connections: Secure user communications with applications and services through end-to-end encryption (SSL/TLS passthrough, SSL/TLS termination, and mTLS).
  • Holistic Defense: Protect apps from the OWASP Top 10 security risks with F5’s industry-leading web application firewall (WAF) technology.
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Simplify operations

Simplify operations

F5 NGINXaaS for Azure helps reduce complexity and boost efficiency with L4/L7 load balancing, WAF security, programmable policies, and automation integration combined into a single, unified ADCaaS.

  • Unified Technology: Combine L4 and L7 load balancing in one unified tool along with enhanced web application firewall (WAF) protection, mitigating tool sprawl.
  • Advanced Customization: Tailor policies and rules to unique application requirements with built-in programmability and broad control over the data plane configuration.
  • Automated Workflows: Integrate easily with your platform automation tools, workflows, scripts, and pipelines, improving operational efficiency.

Product Overview

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Elevate cloud-native application delivery

F5 NGINXaaS for Azure is a partner ecosystem’s next-level ADCaaS solution jointly developed by F5 and Microsoft and natively integrated into the Azure cloud platform. F5 NGINXaaS is available from the Azure Marketplace, and it provides robust application delivery services that enhance application performance, availability, security, and observability in Azure’s public cloud environment.

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Core Capabilities

Implement a highly scalable, highly customizable, and fully managed ADCaaS solution in Azure designed to meet the growing needs of your organization’s cloud-native applications.


Scalable performance

Improve user experiences, uptime, and SLAs with optimized traffic distribution and advanced connectivity patterns.

Flexible customization

Fine-tune configurations and implement custom features with a fully programmable data plane.


Detailed visibility

Identify workload trends and simplify troubleshooting with real-time and historical data.

Holistic security

Deliver apps securely from code to customer with integrated AuthN, AuthZ, RBAC, encryption, and WAF protection.

Technology consolidation

Reduce complexity and tool sprawl with unified L4/L7 load balancing and integrated WAF security.

Azure integration

Ensure a smooth and consistent app delivery and security experience across the entire Azure environment.

Related Products

F5 NGINX One
Takes the core NGINX data plane software and enhances it with SaaS-based tools for observability, management, and security.
F5 NGINX App Protect
Lightweight, high-performance, DevOps-friendly WAF designed to protect modern apps and APIs in cloud-native environments.

Resources

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F5 NGINXaaS

Augmenting the Power of F5 NGINXaaS for Azure with One-Click WAF Protection

In today's cloud-driven ecosystem, ADCaaS tools play a critical role in delivering applications securely, efficiently, and seamlessly. Read the blog to learn more about enabling advanced application delivery use cases tailored to the unique needs of an organization.

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Case studies

SA Power Networks Enhances OT Cloud Security with F5 NGINXaaS ›

Causeway Capital Management to Simplify Deployment and Save Time with F5 NGINXaaS for Azure ›

Videos

Getting started with F5 NGINXaaS for Azure ›

Implementing Advanced Load Balancing with Blue Green Deployment in F5 NGINXaaS for Azure ›

Integrating F5 NGINXaaS natively with Azure Monitor and Grafana ›

Enhancing App and API Security with WAF Protection in F5 NGINXaaS for Azure ›

Articles

Enhancing Application Delivery with F5 NGINXaaS for Azure: ADC as a Service Redefined ›

How to Elevate Application Performance and Availability in Azure with F5 NGINXaaS ›

Unlocking Insights: Enhancing Observability in NGINXaaS for Optimal Operations ›

Blogs

Choosing the Right Load Balancer and Application Delivery Controller as a Service for Azure ›

Webinars

Unleashing Cloud Power with F5 NGINXaaS for Azure ›

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