F5 on Microsoft Azure
Secure, optimized apps and app access
When you take business-critical apps to the Azure public cloud, look to F5 application services for industry-leading security, performance, and availability solutions. The integration of F5 and Azure Active Directory ensures seamless, trusted access to all applications.
Deploy F5 NGINX as a Service for Azure
F5’s new NGINX SaaS offering provides a native experience that is tightly integrated with Microsoft Azure for application delivery. Deploying NGINX as a native SaaS solution lets you deliver secure, high-performance apps with advanced traffic and monitoring management on Microsoft Azure.
- Seamless lift-and-shift of your existing NGINX configuration
- Authenticate and authorize using JWT tokens
- Ensure reliability of apps by intelligently routing to servers that are running and operational
- Gain certificate management with Azure Key Vault for SSL/TLS and app insights and visibility with Azure Monitor
- Employ consumption-based pricing to align infrastructure costs to actual usage
WHY F5 APP SERVICES ON AZURE?
Whether you want to deploy F5 application services in front of individual or multiple apps, you can:
- Simplify application migration to Azure.
- Secure Azure workloads against even the most sophisticated threats.
- Ensure simplified, trusted access to any application, including on-premises apps, through Azure Active Directory.
- Automate app delivery within highly agile container environments.
- Gain visibility and detailed analytics for your Azure apps from one central location.
- Implement multi-cloud service consistency across your entire application portfolio.
RELEVANT READING
Solution Overview: F5 Big IP and Azure Active Directory Conditional Access
White paper: Easily Configure Secure Access to All Your Applications via Azure AD
Use Case: Simplifying Centralized Access Configuration for Classic and Custom Applications
F5 Access Policy Manager and Microsoft Azure Active Directory
BIG-IP and Azure: Application Services in the Cloud
Overview: F5 App Services in Azure and Azure Stack
Hybrid Cloud Realized: F5, Azure, and Azure Stack
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to BIG-IP in Azure—High Availability
Github: Supported ARM Templates for F5 and Azure
Top customer outcomes on Azure
APP PROTECTION
CHALLENGE
Web applications need to be protected from SQL injections, L7 DoS attacks, and unknown security threats to be compliant.
SOLUTION
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition and F5 Advanced WAF.
OUTCOMES
- Easily integrates with Azure for a simple deployment experience
- Customizable security settings with F5’s unique policy builder engine
- Comprehensive application and security compliance
- Consistent policy management across applications and cloud environments
- Integration with Azure Security Center and Azure Sentinel for additional monitoring, reporting, and visualization
ACCESS AND IDENTITY
CHALLENGE
Difficulty authenticating, securing and controlling user access to applications across devices and environments
SOLUTION
F5 Access Policy Manager (APM) simplifies and enforces trusted access to all applications, including cloud (IaaS), SaaS, or on-premises (legacy) apps
OUTCOMES
- Bridge the identity gap between cloud-based (IaaS), SaaS, and on-premises applications with F5 APM and Azure Active Directory.
- Streamline access to your entire app portfolio with single sign-on (SSO).
- Simplify management of cloud-based access to mission-critical, on-premise (legacy), and custom applications.
- Enforce and centralize secure, modern authentication policies, including multi-factor authentication (MFA), for all apps, wherever they reside.
- Enhance your access security and user experience with identity aware proxy (IAP).
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APP AVAILABILITY
CHALLENGE
Need better application uptime and resiliency while improving control and flexibility.
SOLUTION
BIG-IP LTM and BIG-IP DNS provide local and global server load balancing, SSL offload and intercept, DNS services, and performance optimization.
OUTCOMES
- Deliver customer SLAs and enable business continuity.
- Monitor and dynamically respond to issues.
- Protect applications and user identities through DNS services and advanced traffic management.
- Enable the use of F5 in the automated toolchain without writing code or managing a server.
- Auto-scaling services match requirements as app usage fluctuates, while optimizing operating costs.
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