F5 Application Delivery Service for AWS
Deliver, secure, and govern every application, API, and AI interaction through a unified SaaS-first service adjacent to your cloud workloads. Gain intelligent traffic management, identity-aware security, deep observability, and highly customizable policy enforcement at scale—all while reducing operational complexity and lowering TCO.
Less complexity. More control. Lower TCO.
F5 Application Delivery Service for AWS is a fully managed ADC as a Service (ADCaaS) powered by NGINX that unifies advanced L4/L7 load balancing, traffic management, security, and API control for modern cloud-native workloads. It centralizes control of application, API, and AI traffic, enabling consistent routing and policy enforcement at scale while optimizing cloud spend and reducing TCO.
Simplify cloud operations
Consolidate tools, eliminate the patching burden, and improve operational efficiency.
Improve user experiences
Ensure fast, resilient, and secure application performance at scale.
Mitigate cybersecurity threats
Protect apps, APIs, and AI without added complexity and overhead.
Operate, scale, and secure apps, APIs, and AI with confidence
Unify delivery
Reduce complexity and streamline operations
- Consolidated services: Combine L4 (TCP, UDP) and L7 (HTTP/HTTPS, gRPC, MCP) load balancing, routing, and advanced security into a single cloud-integrated service, 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 automation tools, workflows, scripts, and pipelines to improve operational efficiency.
Optimize interactions
Deliver exceptional digital experiences
- Adaptive load balancing: Optimize traffic distribution with least-time load balancing and active health checks.
- Advanced rollout patterns: Accelerate app releases with blue-green and canary deployments, and A/B testing out-of-the-box.
- Service continuity: Maintain application availability during peak demand with rate limiting, circuit breaking, and request buffering.
- Proactive monitoring: Reduce outages and speed up troubleshooting with more than 200 detailed traffic and app health metrics.
Enforce control
Secure and govern apps, APIs, and AI across environments
- Secure access: Control user and service identities and their authorized actions with JWT, OIDC, and RBAC.
- Protected connections: Secure communications with applications and services through SSL/TLS passthrough, SSL/TLS termination, and mTLS.
- Holistic defense: Protect apps from the OWASP Top 10 security risks with F5’s industry-leading WAF technology.
- Multi-cloud consistency: Ensure uniform routing, security, and governance across cloud environments.
Core capabilities
Scalable performance
Improve user experiences, uptime, and SLAs.
Flexible programmability
Implement custom features and fine-tune configs.
Detailed visibility
Identify app trends and simplify troubleshooting.
Advanced protection
Deliver experiences securely from edge to cloud.
Technology consolidation
Reduce complexity and tool sprawl.
Cloud integration
Ensure consistent experience across clouds.
F5 Application Delivery Service for AWS
Consume application delivery as a Service
Deploy in AWS in minutes
Get started through the cloud marketplace with PayGo pricing and eligible cloud commits. Enjoy fully managed, advanced SaaS app delivery with no infrastructure to deploy, patch, maintain, or upgrade.
Frequently asked questions
F5 Application Delivery Service for AWS is a fully managed ADC as a Service (ADCaaS) powered by NGINX that provides advanced load balancing, traffic management, security, and API control for modern cloud-native applications, APIs, and AI workloads.
F5 Application Delivery Service for AWS extends beyond standard load balancing with advanced traffic management, identity-aware security, WAF protection, API control, deep observability, and programmable policies, all delivered without an operational toil through a fully managed SaaS model.
F5 Application Delivery Service is available through AWS Marketplace with PayGo pricing, enabling simplified procurement and flexible, usage-based consumption. Customers can also apply eligible AWS commitments and request private offers.
F5 Application Delivery Service for AWS supports a broad range of cloud-native workloads, including web applications, APIs, microservices, Kubernetes environments, and AI inference applications.
Yes. F5 operates, maintains, patches, and upgrades the service, allowing teams to focus on delivering applications rather than managing application delivery infrastructure.