F5 Application Delivery Service for Google Cloud
(formerly F5 NGINXaaS for Google Cloud)
Simplify and accelerate cloud-native application delivery on Google Cloud.
Reclaim engineering hours with advanced, SaaS-first application delivery. Consolidate tools, eliminate the patching burden, and simplify operations.
Improve user experiences
F5 Application Delivery Service for Google Cloud 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 least-time load balancing and active health checks.
- Advanced connectivity patterns - Empower seamless rollouts of application changes and new features with blue-green and canary deployments, and A/B testing out-of-the-box.
- Service continuity - Leverage non-disruptive reconfiguration, rate limiting, circuit breaking, and request buffering to prevent connection timeouts and errors during peak workloads.
Optimize performance and SLAs
With detailed visibility into the health and performance of your applications, F5 Application Delivery Service for Google Cloud enables you to speed up troubleshooting and quickly find the root cause of app connectivity issues.
- 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 integration with Google Cloud Monitoring.
Mitigate cybersecurity threats
F5 Application Delivery Service for Google Cloud’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.
Simplify platform operations
F5 Application Delivery Service for Google Cloud helps reduce complexity and boost efficiency with L4/L7 load balancing, advanced security, programmable policies, and automation integration combined into a single, unified ADCaaS.
- Unified technology - Combine L4 and L7 load balancing augmented with advanced security into one unified deployment, 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
Elevate cloud-native application delivery
F5 Application Delivery Service for Google Cloud is a fully managed load balancer and application delivery services solution built for teams looking to streamline application delivery and security in Google Cloud—without the hassle of managing infrastructure. Whether deploying APIs, microservices, or web apps, organizations can rely on F5 Application Delivery Service to deliver seamless performance, improved visibility, flexible customization, and enhanced security at scale—while eliminating operational complexity.
Core capabilities
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.
Advanced security
Deliver apps securely from edge to cloud with integrated AuthN, AuthZ, RBAC, encryption, and WAF protection.
Technology consolidation
Reduce complexity and tool sprawl with unified L4/L7 load balancing and advanced security controls.
Google Cloud integration
Ensure a smooth and consistent app delivery and security experience across the entire Google Cloud environment.
Resources
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F5 NGINXaaS for Google Cloud: Delivering resilient, scalable applications
See how NGINXaaS works with Google Cloud to enhance performance and security—preparing your mission-critical apps for an AI-powered future.
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