BIG-IP Virtualized Edition (VE) is an industry-leading application delivery controller and security services platform. From providing intelligent L4-L7 load balancing, traffic management, and SSL service offload to application access, acceleration, and security, BIG-IP VE always ensures that your applications are fast, highly available, and secure. Depending on your license, you can deploy the following modules:
LTM — Intelligent L4-L7 load balancing, SSL/TLS termination and offload, health monitoring, connection state management, and application traffic programming control using F5 iRules. DNS — High performance DNS service with global server load balancing.
AFM — Comprehensive multi-layered DDoS protection and network security.
APM — Secure application access control anytime, anywhere.
ASM — WAF protection against a wide range of application-layer security threats, including L7 DDoS, bot attacks, and all OWASP top ten attack types.
Advanced WAF — Includes all ASM features while providing mobile app bot attack mitigation, login credential theft and abuse protection, and blocking automated attacks based on behavioral analysis. If you want to upgrade the BIG-IP VE in the future, select an image with 2 boot partitions. If you don't need an upgrade and plan to create a new instance when a new version of BIG-IP VE is released), select an image with 1 boot partition. Accelerate and simplify your BIG-IP VE deployment using CloudFormation templates from the F5 Networks GitHub repository. https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-aws-cloudformation