Deliver and Secure Cloud-native Apps with F5 NGINX as a Service for Azure and NGINX App Protect

When organizations migrate their workloads to cloud, they often have to address the complexity of application requirements implemented outside of the app using reverse proxies, load balancers, and API gateways. For example, development teams may use NGINX in their application stack to implement security, scalability, availability, and visibility policies, rules, and logic, and they lack depth of configuration control without it.

Cloud-based customers also prefer to consume managed services, driven by desire and demand to remove the burden to operate and maintain infrastructure while ensuring performance, scalability, availability, and uptime SLAs.

We also know that many organizations rely on NGINX’s proxying, load balancing, and caching capabilities every day to deliver their mission-critical applications.

At F5 NGINX, we took this as the base to build NGINX as a Service for Azure (NGINXaaS for Azure) – a relatively unique infrastructure as a service that grants considerable programmability and control not available through other networking services.

NGINXaaS for Azure provides the power of NGINX Plus while eliminating the complexity of installing, licensing, upgrading, and patching your NGINX instances. It features built-in high availability, integration with core Azure services, consistent visibility and management through Azure interfaces, and consumption-based pricing. The service silently handles all the operational toil for you. You simply bring your NGINX configurations and backend applications.