My experience with F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
October 14, 2025

My experience with F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect

Cole Ballen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect

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.

Pros

  • a built in WAF that actually adapts in real time
  • service to service encryption with auto management of certificates

Cons

  • I tried creating a complex fraud detection check for a fintech client at the gateway level but was really limited to how much I can customize
  • granular policy enforcement at the edge
  • an integrated WAF with adaptive threat detection
  • Onboarding to API production ready takes way less compared to when we used separate gateways and manual certificate rotation
  • reliability in cross cluster communication has lowered the number of late night incident escalations, better sleep for me lol
Latencies have constantly been low even when enforcing complex WAF and API policies at the edge.
It however slightly lags when integrating some heavier SIEM tools like splunk

Do you think F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect's feature set?

Yes

Did F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect go as expected?

No

Would you buy F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect again?

Yes

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

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