F5 Networks introduced a BIG-IP virtual edition for the AWS cloud, enabling enterprises to extend their data center and applications to AWS while assuring enterprise-class reliability, scale, security, and performance.
The BIG-IP application delivery controller (ADC) for AWS offers equivalent features to physical BIG-IP devices. These include options for traffic management, global server load balancing, application firewall, web application acceleration, and other advanced application delivery functions.
F5 said that with BIG-IP running in enterprise data centers and on AWS, customers can establish secure tunnels, burst to the cloud, and control the application from end to end.
F5’s initial product offering will use the AWS “bring your own license” (BYOL) model, which allows customers to buy perpetual licenses from F5 and then apply these licenses to instances running in AWS.
F5 already provides support for virtualized and cloud environments based on vSphere, Hyper-V, Xen, and KVM.
