Launching on AWS, new SaaS offerings provide optimized, easy-to-consume services for application developers and DevOps teams
F5®
Cloud Services provide high-availability, self-service, and fully
managed SaaS solutions that are easily provisioned and configured within
minutes on AWS. As enterprise-grade offerings, they are designed to
support modern deployment scenarios such as cloud-native applications,
microservices, and container-based environments. Consumed as a utility
through a pay-as-you-go model in the
F5 Cloud Services also deliver foundational security capabilities and will offer additional protections through future services that allow companies to configure and automate defenses for multiple attack vectors. Offering F5 capabilities through a SaaS delivery model provides an extensible framework to deliver additional services as needed over time, and throughout an application’s development and production lifecycle.
“Customers are increasingly looking for easy-to-consume, advanced
SaaS-based application services for security and application delivery,”
said
“Using the
By introducing F5 Cloud Services to the market in a continuous fashion,
F5 is prioritizing a repeatable framework that delivers new SaaS
offerings as quickly and seamlessly as possible. Secondary DNS Cloud
Services are launching today in the
F5 Cloud Services also represent a new way of delivering capabilities to a wide range of companies that are looking to conveniently layer application services as needed, taking its cues from the same types of agile development methodologies favored by modern application developers. Expanding on the preview introduced at last year’s AWS re:Invent conference, today’s announcement continues a strategic shift for F5 around innovative offerings best suited for how organizations, from start-ups to large enterprises, are deploying and consuming applications and services in the cloud.
F5 Cloud Services have been designed around the ways that modern enterprises are developing and launching applications in the public cloud. With an intuitive user interface for low-touch configurations that can be fully automated via comprehensive declarative APIs, the solution enables developers and DevOps engineers to integrate the power of application services with CI/CD practices for optimized performance throughout the lifecycle of applications.
Customers enjoy real-time visibility and analytics on usage, consumption, performance, and billing with detailed reporting and visualization tools. This level of clarity provides myriad insights to enhance the way application resources are provisioned, secured, and consumed in an always-available cloud delivery platform.
F5’s new services are designed to help cloud-first organizations and developers confidently secure their applications so they can stay focused on what apps do best: provide business value. F5 Cloud Services’ growing set of security-focused offerings give customers a simple, comprehensive way to provide a standard set of services to assure that applications are protected at each stage of development and into the production pipeline.
“As an early adopter of cloud-based DNS services, we’re already seeing
the benefits of deploying secondary authoritative DNS solutions in the
cloud,” said
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About F5
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) gives the world’s largest businesses, service providers, governments, and consumer brands the freedom to securely deliver every app, anywhere—with confidence. F5 delivers cloud and security application services that enable organizations to embrace the infrastructure they choose without sacrificing speed and control. For more information, go to f5.com. You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on LinkedIn and Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technologies.
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