Optimize, Scale, and Secure API Communications
F5 NGINX minimizes latency, bolsters security, and empowers teams to tame the “ball of fire” and API complexity.
Wrangle Your Complex Web of APIs
F5 NGINX helps teams avoid outages and service disruption caused by the unmanaged proliferation of APIs across distributed environments. It also provides better visibility and insight into API communications, helping identify misconfigurations and enforce API policies consistently across any environment.
Unmanaged and unsecured APIs are easy targets for attacks, increasing risk of exposure to cybersecurity and privacy incidents. F5 NGINX defends APIs against common and advanced threats with out-of-the-box protection.
Prioritized Performance
Ensure your APIs are lightning-fast and highly reliable by optimizing latency with NGINX’s efficient, lightweight engine. Its proximity to applications achieves architectural freedom in any environment: on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge.
Fortified Security
Defend APIs against common and advanced threats with out-of-the-box mitigation of the OWASP API Security Top 10 attacks. Secure access to APIs and backend services with authentication, authorization, and encryption policies.
Unified Operations
Centralize API policy management and enforcement consistently across distributed environments. Enable teams to deploy, manage, and optimize API communications efficiently.
Enhanced Intelligence
Gain actionable insights into API health and performance with NGINX's real-time advanced analytics. Foster data-driven decisions for continuous API delivery.
Deliver and Secure Your APIs at Light Speed
Deploy NGINX as an API Gateway across any environment, any architecture, and any modern protocol
NGINX handles API communications with unmatched speed and scale, dramatically reducing latency and improving user experience.
You’ll gain deep visibility into and actionable insights from your API landscape, with access to over 200 real-time metrics and historical data. NGINX also provides robust cybersecurity, with ready-to-use protection from common API threats. NGINX integrated API gateway and WAF functionality is placed in close proximity to your applications to ensure efficient API security and a seamless experience for both developers and end-users to keep your business agile and competitive.
How F5 Helps
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Centralized API Policy Management
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Fortified Reliability
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Streamlined API Deployments
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Comprehensive API Protection
Effortless integration and automation
Utilize centralized management of API gateway configurations and policies and enable seamless integration with your automation tools, pipelines, workflows, and scripts. Achieve consistency and operational efficiency across any environment. Using repeatable and familiar processes, NGINX makes it easier for your teams to deploy and maintain fast, reliable, and secure API gateways.
Insightful metrics for SLA improvement
Enhance uptime and meet SLAs with insights from NGINX's detailed analytics. Use real-time and historical data through intuitive dashboards to quickly troubleshoot and resolve connectivity issues, keeping your APIs reliable and responsive.
Seamless infrastructure-agnostic tools
Reduce complexity and close the skills gap with NGINX uniform API gateways. Consolidate technology, simplify your stack, and enable your teams to focus on efficiency and agility in a competitive tech environment.
Advanced threat detection and mitigation
Implement unified, strong security controls across hybrid, multicloud environments that do not add extra complexity and overhead, or slow down performance.
Resources
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Watch this tutorial to learn how to configure NGINX as an API Gateway.