IBM Cloud Internet Services provides a strong feature set for security-conscious users
December 16, 2019
IBM Cloud Internet Services provides a strong feature set for security-conscious users
Score 3 out of 10
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IBM Cloud Internet Services is currently used as an inbound reverse proxy for DNS name resolution, TLS endpoint, traffic metrics, intrusion detection, source IP address limiting, and other firewall features.
In both single- and multi-tenant scenarios, IBM Cloud Internet Services is provisioned once per IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service cluster (one cluster per single- or multi-tenant solution).
In both single- and multi-tenant scenarios, IBM Cloud Internet Services is provisioned once per IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service cluster (one cluster per single- or multi-tenant solution).
- Supports source IP address limiting.
- Supports intrusion detection.
- Request proxying is done by way of DNS name resolution, which is inflexible.
- Proxy services do not work on wildcard DNS entries.
- IBM Cloud Internet Services acts primarily as a DNS server with reverse proxy capabilities and TLS endpoint termination in the most basic use cases, so it represents a rather expensive option in that regard.