F5 Application, Network, and Security Solutions for Amazon Web Services - Solutions Guide

Oct 25, 2026

F5 Application, Network, and Security Solutions for Amazon Web Services presents an AWS-focused solutions guide for organizations running applications across multiple clouds and on-premises systems. It explains why F5 can provide consistent traffic control, security, and operational visibility while accelerating AWS value. The guide outlines F5 BIG-IP, NGINX, and F5 Distributed Cloud service options, deployment patterns for compute and networking modes, and resiliency for public cloud environments. It also includes solution building blocks for AWS services such as ECS, EKS, ELB, VPC Lattice, and Global Accelerator, plus migration, logging, automation, and API integration topics.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryTechnology

FormatPDF

Pages51

Reading Time2 h 9 min

AccessFree to download

Overview of F5 Offers

Why F5?

How to Use this Guide

F5 BIG-IP Traffic Modules and the Services Presented in AWS

Resiliency and High Availability in the Public Cloud

F5 Deployment Patterns—BIG-IP

F5 Deployment Patterns—NGINX

F5 Deployment Patterns—Distributed Cloud

F5 Combinations with AWS Services

F5 Service Discovery on AWS

F5 Security and Traffic Management for EKS

F5 Security and Traffic Management for ECS

F5 Security for ELB and Direct to EC2 Deployed Applications

F5 Solutions for Bot and Fraud Protections on AWS

Cloud Interconnect—BIG-IP

Migration and Scaling Considerations

Automation and F5 APIs

SOLUTIONS GUIDE F5 Application, Network, and Security Solutions for Amazon Web Services Table of Contents 4 Overview of F5 Offers 4 Why F5? 5 How to Use this Guide 6 F5 BIG-IP Traffic Modules and the Services Presented in AWS 6 Application Deployment Compute Services 7 AWS Deployment Locations for F5 BIG-IP, NGINX, and Distributed Cloud 8 Resiliency and High Availability in the Public Cloud 13 F5 Deployment Patterns—BIG-IP 17 F5 Deployment Patters—NGINX 21 F5 Deployment Patterns—Distributed Cloud 22 F5 Combinations with AWS Services 23 F5 Service Discovery on AWS 25 F5 Traffic Management into Different ECS Networking Modes 26 F5 Security and Traffic Management for EKS and EKS-A 29 F5 Security and Traffic Management for ECS 29 NGINX Security and Traffic Management for ECS 30 NGINX Security and Traffic Management for Amazon ECS-A 30 BIG-IP Security and Traffic Management for Amazon ECS-A 30 F5 Security and Traffic Management for Amazon EC2 Applications 31 F5 Security for ELB and Direct to EC2 Deployed Applications 31 F5 Transparent Security Use Cases of East-West, External-Internal and Internal-External Traffic Flows 33 F5 Solutions for Internal Applications that cannot use DNS 35 Routing and Alien IP Addresses for Virtual Server Density 41 F5 Security and DoS Solutions for AWS Global Accelerator 43 F5 Solutions for VPC Lattice 43 F5 Solutions for Bot and Fraud Protections on AWS 45 Centralized Shared Deployments in Public Cloud 46 Cloud Interconnect—BIG-IP F5 Application, Network, and Security Solutions for Amazon Web Services 2 Table of Contents 46 Migration and Scaling Considerations 47 Encrypted Disk Images 47 Support for AWS CloudHSM 47 iRules and Public Cloud 47 TLS Ciphers and Public Cloud 48 F5 Validated Instance Types in AWS 48 Cloning Instances and Creating Organization Specific AMIs 49 F5 BIG-IP Logging and Visibility in AWS 51 Automation and F5 APIs 51 AWS Cloud Integrations APIs and Logging 51 Flow Chart—F5 to AWS Service F5 Application, Network, and Security Solutions for Amazon Web Services 3 WHY F5? Based on data collected by various technology research companies: organizations are using two or more clouds in combination with on-premises systems to run production applications. The diversity of these environments creates multiple challenges including discrepancies in capabilities, consistency in visibility, and bifurcation of deployment processes. With the increasingly diverse array of application architectures and deployment locations combined with the need for consistent operations visibility and control, F5 is uniquely positioned to deliver value to your organization across your application, cloud, and data center estate, while accelerating the value you can derive from AWS. Overview of F5 Offers F5 has several offers that can be used in Amazon Web Services (AWS) . There will be overlap in where and how you can use these offers in conjunction with AWS services. As we explore the different use cases, we will highlight the technical options for you. Outside of the technical options customers need to consider their own operational readiness for a technology—perhaps they have deep knowledge and experience with F5® BIG-IP® or F5 NGINX—or the delivery model (centralized via F5 Distributed Cloud vs device/instance centric with BIG-IP or NGINX) . As you evaluate the use cases and need to refine which is the best option for you an F5 solutions engineer or an engineer from one of F5’s partners can assist you. | Product
F5® BIG-IP® | Commercial Models | Strengths | | --- | --- | --- | | | Perpetual, Subscription, AWS Marketplace (hourly or annual) | Broadest support for application protocols, greatest flexibility for traffic controls, load balancing, security services, and access control | | F5® NGINX® | Perpetual, Subscription, AWS Marketplace (hourly or annual) | Kubernetes deployments, [HTTP focus](HTTP focus), We

FAQs

为什么组织在使用多个云和本地环境时需要F5？

因为这些环境会带来能力差异、可视性不一致以及部署流程割裂等挑战。F5可在应用、云和数据中心范围内提供一致的流量控制、安全与运营可见性，同时加速从AWS获得的价值。

F5在AWS中提供哪些主要产品与能力？

指南将F5 BIG-IP、F5 NGINX和F5 Distributed Cloud作为主要提供项来介绍。BIG-IP强调应用协议支持与灵活的流量控制、安全和访问控制；NGINX面向Kubernetes部署与HTTP重点功能并包含WAF与L7 DoS；Distributed Cloud强调多云网络与WAAP等保护能力。

该指南如何帮助读者选择合适的部署与架构？

通过“sample questions”等方式先明确需要的虚拟服务器数量、公网IP需求、BIG-IP与应用之间是否允许地址转换(NAT)等关键约束，从而确定是否适合高密度垂直扩展、是否采用路由式拓扑，以及在可行时如何调整拓扑与伸缩策略。

Oct 25, 2026

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