F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect Review
May 30, 2024
Duration: 3:43
F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect Reviews and Ratings
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Instrumental in transforming our application networking and security framework. We utilize the platform to effortlessly link distributed applications across diverse cloud environments, ensuring uniform performance, robust security, and comprehensive observability -Easily connect different applications via APIs, security, scalability
Required: - Application which requires a faster response time without any delays -Company runs their microservices on multiple cloud platforms -Scenario where company wants to leverage both on-prem and cloud
NotRequired: where company operates on single cloud and the feature of it will not be utilized fully- A scenario where a company requires a lot of visual and graphical representation of insight based on logs
When we were forced to accelerate our move from on prem to cloud post Covid 2 years ago, the biggest challenge was securing connectivity between legacy ERP systems in our data center and the new workloads we were standing up in Azure. App connect's ability to bridge those environments through encrypted tunnels gave us a way to transition without exposing supply chain data. 2 years down the line and still underpins the operations on our cloud based systems.
F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect has constantly proven itself in both critical and the day to day operations. For us, it thrives in securing supplier APis across regions or when we need encrypted comms between plants and our analytics workloads. In my opinion, avoid it for standalone workloads
More than 90 percent of our clients in finance run distributed applications that span AWS, Azure, and on prem systems. F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect becomes the connective glue that enforces security policies across those environments. Without it, every environment would need its own API gateway setup, WAF tuning and certificate management.
A strong 8 because it is highly effective when you need secure and low latency access across multicloud environments. I always know I can rely on it. If you try using F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect for very lightweight projects, you'll quickly discover how much of an overkill it is and hate yourself midway - I learnt this the hard way from a recent gruesome experience
Most of our clients operate in fragmented environments: GCP for ML workloads, aws for backends and on-prem databases. So we are using F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect to stitch these services together securely and consistently across environments. We are also using it to standardize zero-trust security policies across workloads. But this is mostly for clients in fintech and healthcare.
My advice is if your firm build multi-cloud, high availability SaaS products or you just run polyglot workloads across kubernetes and VMs, then F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect is your guy. Coming from an expert, just start with a few core services or else you will be overwhelmed.
In our organization, The SaaS environment is very useful for us by the agility of deployment
I think I am likely to recommend F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect to a colleague because, in our experience, We have a full production enviromment with good service availability
very productive and secure, have been using for last 2 years, really like the product and would recommend it
very productive and secure, have been using for last 2 years, really like the product and would recommend it
In our organization, I use F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect mainly for app load balancing.
If asked, I think I am likely to tell a colleague that I give F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect a nine out of ten because I think F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect is a robust product.
Some of the use cases are things like remote access, traditional remote access replacement, and able to access applications from any location with the best possible user experience.
Things like hybrid workforce, remote access and replacement of VDI solutions is probably the primary.
for Modern Apps deployment in a distributed environment
This product is good for modern apps deployment with distributed team in different timezone
but the UI hopefully can be more friendly
We have just started using F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect in a POC for testing out future implementation. So far it has been user friendly and fairly straight forward to configure. The site configuration took the longest simply because of organizational policies we had to work through but once those were sorted we were able to get it up and running in very little time. Impressive to say the least compared to standing up a new box or VM.
I thought F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect worked great to bridge the gap between our gcp environment and on prem. We were lacking in cloud funtionality for native load balancers but XC really connected the dots. We would most likely need a hybrid environment until the irules functionality improves for a few of our apps but most could be migrated over the XC.