A10’s vThunder™ for Microsoft Azure is purpose-built for high performance, flexibility, and easy-to-deploy application delivery and server load balancing and optimized to run natively within the Azure cloud. vThunder offers a comprehensive feature set across advanced Layer 4-7 services for Azure hosted workloads. Services include application acceleration with caching, HTTP compression and WAN-side protocol optimization.

Server availability is ensured with advanced traffic distribution, server health monitoring, persistence and server offloading. Security is enabled with SSL Insight, authentication and DDoS protection. Multi-tenant scenarios are supported with Application Delivery Partitions (ADPs) with over 100 available in each virtual instance for ultra-granular policy configuration control.

Unifying vThunder with the Azure infrastructure ensures key feature support across physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. vThunder for Azure is packaged with an all-in-one inclusive feature set and enables rapid provisioning and on-demand access. Available as either ‘Bring Your Own License’ (BYOL) for customers with current licenses purchased via other channels from A10 Networks or as "Pay-as-you-Go" at hourly rates. Performance levels up to 500 Mbps.

Highlights
• Consistent feature set: Same application services and security features across public and private datacenters
• Accelerated time to value: vThunder is a purpose-built high performance, flexible, easy-to-deploy application delivery and server load balancer solution. Launch vThunder on AZURE within minutes .
• Achieve higher availability: Native HA and GSLB feature enables disaster recovery and failover, optimizes multi-site deployments, traffic migration of traffic across multiple sites during maintenance or outages.
• High throughput:- vThunder (BYOL) supports Network Acceleration providing higher throughput interfaces without extra cost
• Rich feature set :- vThunder’s rich feature set helps to deploy apps reliably and securely
     ⁃ L4 - L7 Loadbalancer
     ⁃ WAF
     ⁃ DDoS Protection
     ⁃ Network Acceleration support
     ⁃ GSLB
     ⁃ Native HA support

For a speedy and simplified vThunder deployment in Azure cloud, customers can take help of various templates (ARM Templates) placed in A10’s GitHub repository:

https://github.com/a10networks/A10-azure-arm-templates

List of ARM templates available:
Deploying vThunder ADC in Azure- 2 NICs (1 Management + 1 Data)
- BYOL(Bring Your Own License)
- 500 Mbps
Deploying vThunder ADC in Azure- 3 NICs (1 Management + 2 Data)
- BYOL(Bring Your Own License)
- 500 Mbps