Our Cloud Backbone
October 14, 2025
Our Cloud Backbone
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
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.
Pros
- service mesh across multiple clusters
- good observability across APIs
Cons
- The custom policy creation is anything but flexible no matter how much you stress the tool
- Edge network optimization ensures low latency supplier and customer transactions across global regions
- multicloud connectivity
- Biggest one so far is when it cut migration time by about half in our 2023 on prem to cloud transition
- Supplier API onboarding came down to days, sometimes even hours from weeks
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?
No
Did implementation of F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect again?
Yes
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