F5 NGINX as a Service for Azure (F5 NGINXaaS) offers a secure, highly scalable, highly customizable, and fully managed load balancer and application delivery controller (ADC) solution designed to meet the growing needs of organization’s cloud-native applications in Microsoft Azure.

Co-developed by F5 and Microsoft and natively integrated with Azure’s interface and core services, F5 NGINXaaS provides robust application delivery services that enhance application performance, availability, security, and observability at scale.

Features and benefits

By combining F5’s industry-leading application delivery expertise with the flexibility and scalability of Azure, F5 NGINXaaS bridges the gap between general-purpose ADC as a Service (ADCaaS) capabilities and advanced, highly unique application requirements:

• Scalable performance: Improve user experiences, uptime, and SLAs with adaptive load balancing, optimized traffic distribution, and advanced connectivity patterns.
• Flexible customization: Tailor custom load balancer policies, rules, and features to unique application requirements with built-in programmability and broad control over the data plane configuration.
• Detailed visibility: Gain insights into workload trends and simplify troubleshooting with real-time and historical data from more than 200 granular metrics.
• Holistic security: Protect applications and APIs from code to customer with integrated authentication, authorization, role-based access control, encryption, and advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) protection.
• Technology consolidation: Reduce complexity and tool sprawl with Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancer and integrated WAF security in a unified deployment.
• Azure integration: Ensure smooth and consistent app delivery and security experience across the entire Azure environment.

Scenarios and use cases

F5 NGINXaaS for Azure is ideal for medium- to large-scale Azure cloud environments supporting scalable, dynamic cloud-native workloads. Its advanced capabilities make it an excellent choice for:

• High-Traffic Cloud-Native App Delivery: Applications requiring advanced load balancing algorithms to handle many concurrent connections efficiently in an agile Azure cloud environment.
• Distributed Applications in Kubernetes: Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) single- and multi-cluster deployments for enhanced performance, observability, and protection, as well as distributed load balancing, failover, and disaster recovery scenarios, ensuring seamless user experience.
• API Communications: Scenarios requiring granular control over API traffic with programmability and integrated API security.

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