Great for load balancing, traffic management, securing, and protecting cloud apps. It is a scalable and flexible platform with multiple features to support complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments. BIG-IP Cloud App Stack is slightly on the expensive side, but worth the cost given its WAF and DDoS protection and its integration with DevOps workflows.

Pros

Complex cloud configurations.
WAF and DDoS protection.
Automation and workflow integration.

Cons

Complex to configure.
Price
Overkill solution for small businesses.

Likelihood to Recommend

It can integrate with a vast number of cloud environments and hybrid configurations. Does well for WAF and DDoS protection, and for load balancing across cloud, on-premises, and edge. It offers AI-powered insight and automation, logging, metrics, and traffic data. It also supports AI and ML workloads at the edge.

Verified User

Contributor in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 26, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, We are beginning our journey into Kubernetes with F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack and they have become a great partner, helping us each step in the process.

Pros

Kubernetes
Cloud
Ease of use
Value

Cons

Product showcasing
Support

Likelihood to Recommend

I think I am likely to recommend F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack to a colleague because, in my experience, Our F5 rep has been great about taking the time to make sure our product selection is correct.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

Wowza!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 26, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack to Deploy Kubernetes apps, provide security, and quickly implement DevOps strategy for a faster time to market.

Pros

API DevOps
API Security
Apps

Cons

Labs on demand

Likelihood to Recommend

If asked, I think I am likely to recommend F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack to a colleague because, in my experience, This F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack product is outrageously modern.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

Great service!

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

September 23, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been tasked with using F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack in many ways. One of those is with load balancing our different apps. Currently we have times when one function or feature does not work in an app and with F5 it is easy to solve for. We also now can use the F5 health checks to ensure everything is working properly.

Pros

Keeps our applications running smoothly
Provides monitoring
Helps with our CICD

Cons

The UI is hard to learn
The use of acronyms is heavy and hard to know without previous experience

Likelihood to Recommend

F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack is great for businesses that want 100% up time. It probably is not best when there is only one person who can handle all things F5.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

review of F5 Distributed Cloud App

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 22, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

use it to host outfacing app , and also to test its robustness before deployment

Pros

ease of use
scalability
security

Cons

bit of learning curve
memory footprint

Likelihood to Recommend

for testing sandbox app , not so ideal for big team sync

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack is quite straightforward

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

February 13, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack to distribute work load between multiple servers

Pros

Simple interface
Templates help a lot
Clear results

Cons

It's still a little early so the app feels foreign to our ops teams
I would like to customize the UI so I can visually see if I'm in Prod or Dev based on background colors
Templates are a little awkward to create

Likelihood to Recommend

F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack is quite straightforward with the UI and you can expose the features you want. This simplifies the experience for non-admins

Verified User

Contributor in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

F5 Distributed Cloud App Stackis the only solution for multi-cloud environments

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 13, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack for the migration of apps of legacy LTM’s - some came be directed to cloud so XC is a great option.

Pros

Ease of set up
API intergration
Security
Scale

Cons

Single pane of glass
LDAP integration

Likelihood to Recommend

F5 Distributed Cloud App Stackis the only solution for multi-cloud environments

Verified User

Representative in Sales (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

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