F5 Distributed Cloud Services Reviews

F5 Distributed Cloud Services is primarily used in our environment for unified multi-cloud app security, edge DDoS mitigation, API discovery and behavioral security, and advanced bot defense.

During a major device launch and our marketing campaigns, we faced significant challenges when our customer portal was targeted by automated inventory scrapers and credential stuffing bots, as well as microservices changes that introduced undocumented shadow APIs, bypassing the baseline security checks. For the API discovery rollout, we integrated F5 Distributed Cloud Services API Security across our Kubernetes ingress nodes in passive mode, utilizing machine learning models to analyze live traffic.

The best features F5 Distributed Cloud Services provides are all-in-one WAAP integration because it combines the WAAP, API protection, bot defense, and DDoS into a single SaaS control plane, replacing complex fragmented point security tools. Another valuable use case is that it provides automated operational efficiency by leveraging native AI or ML for real-time threat intelligence.

What I appreciate most is the AI-driven bot defense, which is very useful in our environment. It directly supports our revenue and infrastructure costs by eliminating automated credential stuffing. I would also recommend enabling the zero-friction user experience. Unlike traditional solutions that rely on intrusive CAPTCHAs, it leverages JS telemetry and mobile SDK signals to maintain smoother customer transactions.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services has provided an excellent solution in our environment through automation. It has enabled us to reduce our efforts and respond to issues related to WAF or API protections. It has increased our uptime and reduced the security risks to the environment.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services deserves a rating of eight. It has an outstanding unified WAAP capability, market-leading bot defense, and excellent edge DDoS offloading that significantly reduces the backend compute load and SOC overhead.

Regarding F5 Distributed Cloud Services' AI capabilities and governance, it has excellent runtime governance for AI prompts and automatically detects credit card data.

In terms of reliability and output, F5 Distributed Cloud Services has very high efficiency for bot and WAF signals. Real-world accuracy is exceptional for intent-based bot detection, at approximately 98% and above.

We have seen a 99% reduction in bot-driven traffic and it has mitigated over 95% of credential stuffing. We have experienced 70% faster incident resolutions.

There is always room for improvement with F5 Distributed Cloud Services. Sometimes the UI/UX console navigation is a bit tricky, and the deep configuration menus can feel overly complex and could be simplified. Additionally, expanding regional presence should be done in specific local telecom markets to further lower the latency of our hyper-local load latency workloads.

Long-term log retention and cold storage analytics need to improve. Native SIEM log retention on the console is limited. Introducing deeper built-in historical analytics would avoid having to offload all raw security logs to external SIEMs such as Splunk for long-term compliance audits.

Regarding backend TLS verification enforcements, custom edge routes strictly enforce TLS validation on backend endpoints, which requires manual management and uploading of private and public root CAs rather than providing simple certificate bypass toggles for development environments.

I have been working with F5 Distributed Cloud Services for the past couple of years.

Based on my experience with F5 Distributed Cloud Services in the company, it has been very reliable and has delivered around consistent 99.99% uptime.

In terms of scalability, F5 Distributed Cloud Services can be scaled through elastic global edge scaling. Volumetric DDoS and heavy layer 7 bot attacks are absorbed seamlessly by F5's regional edge SaaS network. In terms of horizontal customer edge expansion on-premise, it has good scaling as well.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services customer support has been pretty good. We received enterprise-grade network expertise from support engineers who possessed deep technical network and security expertise. They understand complex BGP routing, IP security, overlay topologies, and Layer 7 WAF logics, rather than just reading basic script templates.

We previously used a different solution from another vendor called Akamai. We had a normal to acceptable experience with that solution, but we switched over to F5 Distributed Cloud Services because there were much more overheads and the pricing was higher.

Regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing for F5 Distributed Cloud Services, it is streamlined onboarding that helps us eliminate upfront hardware CAPEX. It has a multi-tiered licensing structure, allowing us to upgrade and downgrade at any time. It has actually reduced our total cost of ownership.

We procured F5 Distributed Cloud Services through the AWS Marketplace, which allowed us to draw down directly on our AWS enterprise discount program. It also helped us consolidate our software licenses into a single AWS invoice.

In terms of return on investment for F5 Distributed Cloud Services, we have seen at least a 30% reduction in infrastructure and compute costs, with 20 to 30% engineering time saved and 85% reduction in support desk overheads. On another level, we have been able to reallocate or replace our staff headcount. It has fast payback and full ROI.

Before choosing F5 Distributed Cloud Services, we evaluated other solutions, including Cloudflare Enterprise and AWS native security features such as AWS WAF and Shield.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services comes highly recommended. I am happy with the services provided, and I will recommend F5 services to others. I have covered most of the relevant topics, and my overall review rating for F5 Distributed Cloud Services is eight.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services is being used for web application firewall along with API security, bot protection, and DDoS protection.

There are two scenarios involving web applications and mobile applications with applications hosted across private clouds and public clouds. When switching from one cloud to another, there is no need to change anything on the backend servers on the cloud service provider. Only the DNS level on F5 itself requires changes.

F5 provided a cloud security platform called a SaaS platform, which is a distributed cloud platform where CNAME and DNS changes can be added, and then the application load balancer can be deployed straight away.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services has been used for two years for DDoS protection, and there is a particular feature called API protection. Within API protection, there is malicious user mitigation, which is one particular technology that has been implemented. This is a kind of advanced bot attack prevention.

Malicious user mitigation is an AI/ML-based technology that was introduced by the F5 team, and this particular MUG protects rate limiting. If some users are having anomaly detection or someone is trying to do a bot attack, it will create a CAPTCHA challenge for that particular user alone and not for all users.

For example, if someone is trying to act as a rogue, it will create a CAPTCHA challenge in the backend system on that particular system, so they cannot try again and again at the same time. It is for a concurrent session, and it will give the CAPTCHA challenge. This MUG, malicious user mitigation, prevents bot attacks.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services includes the real-time intelligence feature, which helps with threat response strategies from a threat intelligence perspective. For example, if there are geo-restrictions or geo-based restrictions, sometimes people may come in through proxy-based servers, and it will prevent that.

The load balancing feature optimizes application performance. Observability is the basic piece where F5 got introduced. This observability piece provides end-to-end visibility on the application performance. It gives complete end-to-end visibility across network latency and application performance issues.

Sometimes when it is getting more than 200 pages, it throws errors such as 300, 400, or whatever has been configured, including 500 errors.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services has helped improve traffic management efficiency. Most applications are hosted in the Check Point and F5 firewall, F5 web application firewall, where applications and traffic management can be accessed in a single dashboard.

Automated threat detection is a basic feature of F5 Distributed Cloud Services meant for that purpose. There are two scenarios with automated threat detection, which is provided by F5. It is a completely machine learning solution that came from the bot defense, and it automatically protects against sophisticated attacks.

Last year there was a downtime of 30 minutes across the cloud distributed console, and that was the only impact observed. Since 30 minutes of downtime is huge for applications, maintenance, it impacted RPO, RTO, and all. The F5 CTO and their senior management team addressed that issue.

For availability, they have added additional clusters across all the regional edges in the Kubernetes clusters to enhance availability. However, this improvement needs to be monitored since it was a past incident.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services has been used for more than two years.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services is stable, and they are improving also.

There is no issue on the scalability part of F5 Distributed Cloud Services. The only thing is the initial phase is a challenge; scalability is not a concern. On the initial stage regarding pricing, the moment of committing is the only concern. On the scalability part, there have not been much issues.

Technical support from F5 is good compared to Cisco and HP. This support is very good. F5 provides remote support also. I would provide 9.5 for support.

Positive

F5 Distributed Cloud Services has an easy implementation across all the service providers including AWS, GCP, and Azure. F5 DXE has been implemented everywhere, and it is very easy to integrate.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services was deployed with a partner. Initially, the partner did not support it, but the team manages other solutions, so the people know the technology and have easily adopted it.

There is definitely a return on investment in F5 Distributed Cloud Services.

Compared to other providers, F5 Distributed Cloud Services is a little expensive. However, on the performance side, it is a robust solution. If comparing Check Point and F5 Distributed Cloud Services, F5 is a little expensive. The only difference is in price; technically, they are pretty much the same.

Whenever feedback is given, whether positive or negative, F5 takes it as a serious note and then fixes it. A lack of functionalities is not an issue. At the earlier stage when F5 Distributed Cloud Services was purchased two years ago, there was a lot of technology that was not able to be deployed.

For example, there were three to four different applications from different companies, and they could not be seen in a single dashboard. It was necessary to go to each and every dashboard and collect the centralized access management part. Now F5 has fixed it, and it is working fine. Overall, I would give F5 Distributed Cloud Services a rating of 8 out of 10.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services works as a Software as a Service based security, networking, and application management that can be deployed across multi-cloud, on-premises, or edge locations. It comes with an integrated package that includes Network Firewalls, Web Application Firewall, API security, and API Gateways into a single software. You don't have to buy four different vendors or four different bundles from other vendors. F5 Distributed Cloud Services comes as a package or bundle which has the load balancer, network firewall, web application firewall, and API security all in a single software stack.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services provides a single unified console for security operations, network operations, and DevOps across all environments. This unified console is the best thing because you don't have to hire multiple people to operate with different environments, so you can unify that. It has a strong integrated security stack, including Web Application Firewall and bot defense. The defense system is very good, so you will hardly experience any attacks on the organization, and it really prevents them. Security is also very strong.

DDoS is a very common type of malware or attack in the market and can be easily injected into the network. F5 Distributed Cloud Services provides a very good feature that completely protects the network from DDoS and similar attacks.

Real-time intelligence is timely and gets up to date. It has a super solid Kubernetes and DevOps features that enhance the security because whenever there's a new update or patches, it delivers them on time. This keeps the network and the complete cloud services of the organization strong with unified security which keeps the edge environment very compelling.

Load balancing is an important feature to understand. A load balancer works so that if you have one server, the completely traffic moves to that server. Sometimes what happens is it gets overloaded and it increases the chances of a crash. What this feature does is it balances the load by allowing you to put additional servers in different geo-locations. For example, if China users want to access the service, China users, India users, or US users don't have to access that one device, but it gets divided into three different zones. China users access the APAC server, and US users access the US region servers. This is how it balances the load of the traffic. F5 Distributed Cloud Services is the market leader in load balancers and manages traffic really well. It also provides redundancy, so if one server goes down, for example if the China server is down, China users can now access the APAC or India server without downtime. That's how it helps.

There are some gaps between the implementation, expectation, and the reality. The main point is user integration with other parts, such as on-premises. One thing is on-prem and the other one is on the cloud. It is sometimes difficult to implement or execute and bring that onto the same page. This is one thing I would say requires improvement and definitely they can solve this. Basically, this is a critical concern.

For one thing, if the organization does not need the complete bundle, it comes with huge costing included if you're putting something in a bundle. For example, one organization needs only a simpler use case, for example a CDN with very lightweight sort of security. I'm talking about very small organizations. For them, it is huge costing because they have to buy a complete bundle. They should have what CloudFlare provides, which is a simple CDN feature and API security that is very cheap and affordable. F5 Distributed Cloud Services doesn't have something like that. That is the reason why CloudFlare remains a leader in that space for small customers and those who have just started or are startups. That is one thing that can definitely be worked on.

It is because there are other players in the market that provide very cheaper and simpler environments or infrastructures, CloudFlare and Akamai. Comparatively, F5 Distributed Cloud Services is relatively much more expensive.

I have been using F5 Distributed Cloud Services for probably six to eight months.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services is very stable. I won't face any issues with stability as a concern because it provides the load balancers and all redundancy, so it's very unlikely that we have any downtime.

Call services they need to work on because mostly whenever I had some issues with F5 support, I have to send an email. Email sometimes gets a delayed response and they cannot immediately respond to your questions. Sometimes it is urgent, so again, I have to rely on their email services. Email services are good, but they need to have a good human-based interaction with the call centers.

Negative

If the organization is pretty old and already established in the market, then F5 Distributed Cloud Services is good for their investment. But for small players, it is completely not worth it. There are other players which provide similar features in a very affordable price, so I would give them a low rating.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services is definitely good with what they do. They have so many other technologies including BIG-IPs, distributed cloud services, CDN, and WAF, and they are doing pretty much good in this segment. As I mentioned earlier, if an already established organization wants to buy a bundle, then F5 Distributed Cloud Services has a clear, outstanding reputation in the market. Some people who cannot go with that, the big organization, then there are other options available. Whatever they promise, if they are charging a higher amount, they are giving the network organization a secure environment for sure.

One thing they need to work on is support, and the other one is that instead of a bundle, they should also come up with small packages for smaller players and smaller organizations who want to buy only services such as CDN or security APIs or simple WAF. They have the features available, but still, they can work on it. If with the cloud services, somebody wants to customize it, they should have that ability.

I collect reviews for F5 Distributed Cloud Services and F5 Silverline Managed Services. I work with F5 Distributed Cloud Services as a consultant in the implementation environment.

I have already implemented the cloud services for F5 environment as a service and migrated the on-premises environments to the cloud with F5 Distributed Cloud Edge Networks and customer services. I already have three projects to migrate to the cloud with the F5 solution.

I have a lot of on-premises setups, but I am already working with the cloud environment. I already have many clients that need to migrate to the AWS cloud environment. I need to work with the direct F5 Distributed Cloud Services solution.

Elastic environments are the most valuable features because I can pull these apps and migrate the on-premises environment to the Distributed Cloud environment. This capability is very strong, and the security regarding the apps is really very powerful.

I put the DDoS protection for the application solution at the company, Minera Mexico, which has many profiles for DDoS protection.

The DDoS security protection has an overview of the security available and has the streams and the capabilities to patch the security of the application in on-premises. It has a very good capability to convert an on-premises application into a Distributed Cloud application. It has the capabilities regarding that.

The real-time intelligence feature is very advanced, but at this moment, I really do not have an environment with the availability for AI or advanced features.

I need to think about this for the future. F5 Distributed Cloud Services needs to create links with Amazon and Google Cloud or other platforms. At this moment, it does not have integrated steps to work with those clouds. I think in the future, F5 Distributed Cloud Services needs to create these links with other clouds to work more reliably. I think the APIs and synchronization with other clouds or systems with OCI to Oracle needs to be implemented for the future.

More integration options are needed. The offering in Mexico has a lot of traffic to Amazon or Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure. I need to integrate this solution with F5 Distributed Cloud Services and the reliable services and application delivery services.

The worst experience is that with so many solutions available, it is very complicated to know all of the solution modules, and the offers from F5 Distributed Cloud Services are vast. It is complicated to know all the solutions regarding security with WAF, delivery controller with LTM, ACM, as F5 Distributed Cloud Services really has a lot of modules.

I have been working with F5 Distributed Cloud Services around three years ago. I have been working for three years and I am still working with it.

The traffic management is a very good goal already with this capability that the client needs. The traffic manager is in architecture in L7, Layer 7 environments that need to deliver more complicated applications to the world. I need to control and security statements to have capabilities for that. I need the traffic management environments in distributed management, which have a very good goal to manage very difficult traffic in the world.

I have a lot of tickets already in the F5 Distributed Cloud Services platform. I can open tickets for support with the migration plan. I have classified these tickets for different issues. I remember opening a ticket for support when I migrated the on-premises solution, needing to work with an engineer during the maintenance windows. The F5 team supported me during these maintenance windows. There is a lot of support from F5 Distributed Cloud Services and the knowledge on the page is very good and reliable.

I participate in all the setup and implementation environments. At this moment, I may deliver the SOC or SOC support deliveries.

I have a lot of challenges regarding that. In the first steps, I need to visualize the goals of the client and establish the project plan to migrate this solution.

I currently am working with F5 Distributed Cloud Services and other companies.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services is affordable. I think it is very affordable. I do not think it is expensive.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services is a very nice solution to migrate the application already in Mexico. This solution in Mexico is growing very well. I have a nice relationship with the F5 team in Mexico. I think this is the strength of F5 Distributed Cloud Services. I gave this review a rating of nine.

It helped for many customers, and it is cheaper than Silverline, the previous service.

Regarding F5 Distributed Cloud Services, Silverline is no longer in use. I have been working with F5 Distributed Cloud Services and was even part of the migration of some customers from Silverline to F5 Distributed Cloud Services.

F5 is attempting to make F5 Distributed Cloud Services function in the cloud similarly to BIG-IP, bringing the same processes the TMOS operating system uses into the cloud environment. F5 Distributed Cloud Services is based on Envoy proxy. F5 Distributed Cloud Services is not as robust as desired. Although it has many beneficial features, it does not have TMOS in the background. It has the same WAF daemon; the BD daemon is the same WAF. They use the same WAF processes across their products: NGINX, BIG-IP, and F5 Distributed Cloud Services.

Regarding the DDoS protection feature in F5 Distributed Cloud Services, I would rate it seven out of ten. It provides layer three and four DDoS protection, and it also has layer seven DDoS protection. It has improved. Previously, I would have rated it six out of ten. Now it is seven out of ten because it includes machine learning capabilities.

For some virtual servers, the feature should trigger earlier, and for others, it should trigger later, depending on the virtual server's purpose and transaction volume.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services needs to add iRule support. This is the primary improvement needed.

For additional features I expect from F5 Distributed Cloud Services, iRule support is definitely necessary, along with more support for customizing layer three and four settings and layer seven, similar to BIG-IP, including TCP profiles and HTTP profiles. F5 Distributed Cloud Services does not have as much functionality to customize the TCP or HTTP settings.

I would also like to see more artificial intelligence capabilities. Some kind of artificial intelligence learning would be valuable. F5 Distributed Cloud Services has artificial intelligence for the WAF, but it does not have a BIG-IP WAF policy builder where the WAF policy is built from traffic. F5 Distributed Cloud Services does not have a policy builder feature.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services has open API discovery, but that is only useful for API traffic. F5 Distributed Cloud Services does not have such a feature for web traffic from normal users.

Concerning the price, I would say it is at a medium level. It is cheaper than Silverline, so it is a medium level.

Regarding room for improvement, sometimes it times out. However, I believe that is normal for a SaaS-based service in the cloud.

For technical support regarding F5 Distributed Cloud Services support, I would rate it seven out of ten.

I find BIG-IP pricing is high, but as I mentioned, it is worth it. BIG-IP, the previous product, is expensive but worth it. F5 Distributed Cloud Services is at a medium price point.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services has good competition, including Akamai and Cloudflare, and essentially all the SaaS offerings. They are also good. I am not a big fan of Akamai, but Cloudflare and CloudFront are alternatives. CloudFront was another option.

I would rate F5 Distributed Cloud Services seven out of ten overall.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services still does not have the same flexibility as BIG-IP. It does not have iRules. It has service policies that are a way of scripting, but they are not on the same level as BIG-IP. F5 Distributed Cloud Services uses Envoy proxy in the background, which is open-source.

For their real-time intelligence feature, I would rate it seven and a half out of ten.

There is room for improvement.

Regarding the load-balancing feature, I rate it seven out of ten, as mentioned. It is similar to the general platform because it does not have the same iRule capabilities. It has some scripting with a service policies feature, but it is not at the level of F5 iRules on BIG-IP.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services has helped improve my traffic management efficiency overall because it is cheaper than Silverline. In that respect, it is better than Silverline.

IRule support is definitely needed.

Speaking of the interface, the GUI is not the greatest, but I would rate it eight out of ten. It is a modern GUI.

It is much newer. It is not ten years old like BIG-IP. It is approximately three or four years old.

My overall rating for F5 Distributed Cloud Services is seven out of ten.

I address security threats to my clients and customers through the capabilities of F5 Distributed Cloud Services, but I need clarification on some details.

The key benefits that my clients have seen from using F5 Distributed Cloud Services are the ease of configuration and the platform itself. It provides a unified platform for all policies and configurations, making it very easy and user-friendly, unlike the Big-IP appliance.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services helps improve traffic management efficiency. My clients previously worked with load balancers and LTM policies on Big-IP, and they now manage these from F5 Distributed Cloud Services itself, making configuration much easier.

I do not have any specific areas that need improvement. There do not appear to be any features that clients would like to see included or functionalities that can be enhanced at this time.

I have not experienced any stability issues with F5 Distributed Cloud Services. I find it to be very stable.

Regarding scalability, it is easy to scale up or scale out.

I am familiar with F5 customer service and the technical support team, as I opened a support ticket from my tenant to the Distributed Cloud support.

I would evaluate F5 technical support as not particularly fast in replying, but it is effective.

On a scale of one to ten, I think seven would be a fair rating for the technical support. This rating is based on the response time, which needs to be improved.

I have not worked with any other technologies or vendors personally, but I hear about them from competitors in the market.

The setup process is straightforward, and I have not encountered any challenges or complexities.

I work with F5 directly; however, I procure F5 Distributed Cloud Services through a distributor here in Egypt.

I do find F5 Distributed Cloud Services to be cost-effective, as it brings benefits and a strong return on investment.

Regarding pricing, I believe the prices are much higher than I expected, but for the time being, the customer is still paying. It is not really a cheap product.

From a pricing perspective, there should be more flexibility in the pricing model, as this leaves room for improvement. We are a platinum partner for F5, so we have aggressive discounts from the F5 team, but there is still competitive pricing pressure regarding the same product from other vendors.

Unfortunately, I do not have any examples that demonstrate improvements in security posture with F5 automated threat detection, as I did not investigate it on the technical side.

Given my extensive experience with F5 technologies, I have no piece of advice or recommendation that I can share with other organizations considering F5 Distributed Cloud Services.

Overall, I would recommend it. It is very easy to use and effective, and you can immediately configure the policies and configurations you need, with results appearing in seconds.

Other organizations do not need to keep anything specific in mind, as I have no specific advice to share before they consider moving to F5 Distributed Cloud Services.

I have given this review an overall rating of 8.5 out of 10.

I am using F5 Distributed Cloud Services primarily for securing my infrastructure with layer 7 protection, which F5 provides. The scenarios and use cases I am protecting involve geo-blocking, rate limiting, and allowing specific traffic to my applications. I have OWASP Top 10 protections enabled, as F5 Distributed Cloud Services offers OWASP Top 10 for layer 7 protections, which provides multiple protection capabilities.

In my opinion, the best features F5 Distributed Cloud Services offers include their ability to operate without running on the cloud, which is why they provide good value to Indian customers. This feature benefits my organization by providing overall value and cost with the product. When I say the product is not hosted on the cloud, I mean that the product itself is managed by data centers as most clouds do. However, their seamless management of their own data center and the fact that F5 Distributed Cloud Services holds its own data center is what benefits customers in India.

Specifically, the confidence level on API security that F5 Distributed Cloud Services provides can be improved, especially if they can discover APIs in a better manner than all of their competitors.

I would estimate the cost was reduced by approximately 30 percent in the first year.

I rate F5 Distributed Cloud Services an eight out of ten overall.

There are two main use cases for Distributed Call Services: DDoS or Distributed attacks protection and WAF web application security or firewall.

All features are valuable. In a multi-cloud or distributed cloud, there are many protection possibilities from data to web application or API protection, including bot mitigation. This is a comprehensive package for web application security. The main benefit is Web App Security, offering a complete security package from DDoS to web application firewall, API protection, and bot mitigation.

It's a long way to be perfect, of course, as with all solutions. The main issue is integration with other parts or products of F5, like on-premise WAF. There are some problems, mainly from the perspective of implementation and customer expectations, which sometimes differ from reality.

I worked for an F5 partner, not as a customer. We used the Services line for DDoS protection. It was the main use case for Silver Line for about one and a half years.

There are compliance issues, mainly if a customer wants something that isn't possible, yet not with the functionality.

I have had no problem with scalability yet, so it's good.

From my point of view, support is responsible and okay.

Positive

Distributed code is easy to set up. If rated on a scale from one to ten, where ten means very easy, I would probably rate it a nine.

For those who want to use Azure Cloud Services, consider implementing it. It's pretty good. From my point of view, it's easy to set up and offers strong functionalities. 

The overall product rating is nine out of ten.

A common use case is multi-cloud networking. If a global customer has applications on different clouds that come together as one application, F5 can be a good entry point for that application with additional security.

Using F5 Distributed Cloud Services eliminates the need for hardware in your data center, resulting in cost savings.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services is valued for multi-cloud networking and easy integration with DevOps tools and Kubernetes. It offers comprehensive security, including DDoS protection, API protection, and application protection through a unified console. Multi-cloud networking and API Protection and Discovery are unique features.

F5 is known for being the best load balancer in the market. Customers with an existing module can easily adopt additional modules without investing in new hardware.

The pricing could be adjusted to better meet the needs of typical customers in regions like Poland, where the product is considered too expensive.

I estimate F5 Distributed Cloud Services has been available for no more than two years.

I rate the overall solution as highly stable, scoring it a ten out of ten.

I rate the scalability of the solution at a ten out of ten, indicating that it should work flawlessly.

I have worked with their support for over ten years and rate it a ten out of ten since the quality is among the best.

Positive

I work with other vendors, such as Broadcom, BeyondTrust, and Qualys.

The cloud version is quick to implement, typically taking a few hours.

From my company, one person is usually enough for implementation. For maintenance, there are four engineers who handle duties between teams.

The solution provides a return on investment by eliminating the need for hardware in the data center.

I am not involved in sales, so I do not deal with the pricing aspect directly. I give the cost of the solution a four out of ten since it is not a cheap product.

I recommend the solution for its features like multi-cloud networking and easy integration with DevOps tools. However, cost comparisons with other services show a significant difference.

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.