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F5 BIG-IP [Private Offer Only] vs Lightning AI comparison

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F5 BIG-IP [Private Offer Only]
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
471st
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
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Lightning AI
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
27th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Dimitrov Nikolay - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Lead and Senior DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Advanced automation and powerful traffic controls have improved application security
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 support is something that definitely could be improved in F5 BIG-IP [Private Offer Only]. I mean HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 protocol support, as well as security for them too. For F5 BIG-IP [Private Offer Only] to have better support for them would include load balancing, but also better WAF (Web Application Firewall) support for these two protocols. Improving the mentioned HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 support and the GUI would be beneficial. If they improve those things and add machine learning and AI, I want it to have some kind of AI on the box because everyone is going to AI, and they have to add some AI security to be able to check the traffic using AI models. HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 protocol support, AI, the GUI to be changed, and inline AI where the device downloads pre-built AI models from a SaaS cloud to check the traffic for security is something I think is very needed because using AI models as a replacement for signatures will be better. I think WAF signatures are a thing of the past. I would also like to see HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 in the future as additional features, and anything else I would improve would definitely include HTTP/2 and HTTP/3.
Shravan Revanna - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at klydo.in
Rapid experimentation has transformed our AI prototyping and collaboration workflows
There are definitely a few areas where Lightning AI can improve. Overall, we have had a positive impact, but there are definitely a few areas it could enhance. One area is cost visibility and resource management. There are multiple teams running experiments, GPUs, and long-running sessions. It is not always obvious how much compute is being consumed and what the projected costs might be. More granular visibility and alerts would help the team manage usage proactively. Another area is workspace and project organization. As the number of experiments grows, it can become difficult to keep projects, notebooks, data sets, and test environments organized. Better lifecycle management could help achieve this and discoverability would be useful for larger teams. We have also encountered situations where long-running sessions or development environments needed more resilience. While this is not unique to Lightning AI, interruptions during model training and experimentation can be frustrating, especially when working with larger data sets. From an enterprise perspective, I think there is room to strengthen governance and operational control. Features around permissions, auditability, environment standardization, and usage policies become increasingly important as adoption expands across teams. I would particularly appreciate better support for moving successful experiments into production workflows. There could be better cost and resource visibility, stronger project and experiment organization, improved reliability for long-running sessions, stronger governance capabilities, and a smoother journey from experimentation to production. None of these are major blockers for us, but these are areas where the platform could become more valuable as the team and workload scale. A minor annoyance would be stronger project and experiment organization. When more data sets and more projects come into place, it becomes difficult to organize, and keeping them in a standardized way becomes slightly difficult. That is an area I wanted to highlight. There is not much of a pain point. There are a few minor suggestions I would mention, such as observability and experiment tracking at scale. When teams start running many experiments across different models, it becomes increasingly important to have a clear view of what changed and why performance improved or declined. That could be one area. Another area is cross-team discoverability. As AI adoption grows within an organization, valuable experiments and reusable components can be scattered. Better mechanisms for surfacing reusable workflows and templates would be beneficial. I would also appreciate continued investment in LLM and agent development workflows. The AI landscape is evolving rapidly. These suggestions come from the perspective of a team that is using the platform heavily. Most of the core capabilities work well today, which is why the feedback is more about helping the platform scale with a growing AI organization rather than fixing major shortcomings.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"F5 BIG-IP [Private Offer Only] data plane is very powerful; traffic is processed very quickly."
"F5 BIG-IP [Private Offer Only] is the best option on the market without any question."
"F5 BIG-IP [Private Offer Only] is an application delivery controller that does what it says on the tin, and we use it as a firewall, routing device, WAF, and more, leveraging a full set of its capabilities."
"With the help of Lightning AI, we were able to manage our workflows efficiently, manage our GPU infrastructure effectively, and save a substantial amount of time and actions in those areas."
"Lightning AI is excellent for setting up GPU servers, Docker, Kubernetes, and ML infrastructure, providing everything in one platform, which is the unique aspect I have noticed."
"Lightning AI changed my workflow compared to what I was doing before by not only saving my time, but also making my training and validations more standardized to try different hyperparameters and logging metrics and tracking points."
"Overall, it has helped us spend less time on infrastructure and operational setup and more time building constantly and evaluating AI solutions that can create value for businesses."
 

Cons

"F5 BIG-IP [Private Offer Only] is expensive; it is very expensive, but they are the leader, so everyone buys F5 BIG-IP [Private Offer Only]."
"I am not sure whether putting all eggs in one basket is a good thing."
"I think F5 BIG-IP [Private Offer Only] can be improved, particularly on the metric side."
"I think I have an idea for improving Lightning AI in the area of debugging distributed training. I know the abstraction is great, but when something can go wrong in multi-GPUs, we could probably have more intuitive diagnostics or clearer error messages that would help us to further reduce iteration time or debugging time."
"There are definitely a few areas where Lightning AI can improve."
"When running large workloads or complex projects, Lightning AI can sometimes experience lag or latency issues, and I am not always satisfied with the training results, as I have noticed spikes during training."
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for F5 BIG-IP [Private Offer Only]?
F5 BIG-IP [Private Offer Only] is the market leader, and I would generally recommend it. I have worked with others such as Citrix NetScaler, which is not a bad product, but the support is awful. F5...
What needs improvement with F5 BIG-IP [Private Offer Only]?
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 support is something that definitely could be improved in F5 BIG-IP [Private Offer Only]. I mean HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 protocol support, as well as security for them too. For F5 BIG-I...
What is your primary use case for F5 BIG-IP [Private Offer Only]?
I work with F5 and my primary focus at the moment is F5 BIG-IP [Private Offer Only]. I have been a customer of F5 many times, have been a partner, and have even been part of F5 Professional Service...
What needs improvement with Lightning AI?
Lightning AI is currently in a good stage, but for improvements, integrated tools could be added to easily update ticket statuses directly from Lightning AI, persistent storage offerings could be e...
What is your primary use case for Lightning AI?
My main use case for Lightning AI was personally training a large language model named Bharat LLM, which is a Hindi, English, and Hinglish model with seven billion parameters, trained on roughly ei...
What advice do you have for others considering Lightning AI?
I would advise others looking into using Lightning AI to consider it as a platform where you don't have to worry much about infrastructure and management across your codebase. Lightning AI is a ver...
 

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