F5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer
Simplify cloud-based DNS management and load balancing and get disaster recovery to ease the burden on your operations and development teams.
Powerful DNS with Load Balancing and Disaster Recovery
Direct traffic to the nearest application instance and/or route traffic for GDPR compliancy. Split loads across compute instances. Detect failed or degraded resources instances and reroute clients.
Product Overview
Ensure high availability and robust app performance in the cloud
F5’s cloud-based, intelligent DNS with global server load balancing (GSLB) efficiently directs application traffic across environments globally, performs health checks, and automates responses to activities and events to maintain high performance among apps.
Speed and simplicity
Seamlessly integrate into critical development workstreams and DevOps pipelines, allowing for configuring of critical DNS load balancing services in just a few clicks.
Flexibility and scale
Leverage global auto-scaling to keep up with demand as applications increase, traffic patterns change, and request volumes skyrocket. Adjust load balancing policies in real time, publish new apps almost instantaneously, and pay only for what you use.
Best-in-class security
Get built-in protection for web applications and APIs, including web application firewall (WAF), DDoS mitigation, API security, and bot protection.
Disaster recovery
Automatically detect primary site failures, get zero-touch failover, and dynamically fail applications over to your recovery-designated or available instances.
Core Capabilities
DevOps-friendly F5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer delivers the high performance, security, and global resiliency for apps—across clouds, geographies, and availability zones—that is expected by users in today's demanding environment.
Global location-based routing
With the global anycast network, clients are directed to the nearest application instance with geolocation-based load balancing for the best user experience.
Intelligent load balancing for improved uptime
Direct application traffic across environments, perform health checks, and automate responses to keep apps performing well. Get fully automated disaster recovery.
Intuitive interface with APIs
Manage services in an intuitive user interface or automate everything with declarative APIs.
ADC telemetry
Track performance, application health, and usage with basic visualization.
Layers of security
Comprehensive app security with automatic failover plus WAF, DDoS mitigation, API security, and bot defense.
Cloud-agnostic
Deploy and secure applications anywhere. Built on a global data plane to enable deployment and management of DNS, global server load balancing, and app protection, regardless of where your apps are located.
Experience and support
99.9% service guarantees with premium 24x7 technical support.
Introducing AI assistant in the F5 Distributed Cloud Console – with future availability in Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer!
Streamline the delivery and security of distributed apps using a natural language interface that offers real-time insights, actionable recommendations, and concise summaries of extensive data reports – all within the F5 Distributed Cloud Console.
Resources
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Explore how Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer works with interactive demos that put you in the driver’s seat via a simulated GUI and command line interfaces.