BIG-IP Virtualized Edition (VE) is an industry-leading application delivery controller and secure services platform. Providing everything from intelligent L4-L7 load balancing, traffic management and SSL service offloading 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 broad range of application-layer security threats, including L7 DDoS, Bot attacks, and all of the top ten OWASP attack types.
Advanced WAF — Includes all ASM features while providing bot attack mitigation for mobile apps, protection against login credential theft and abuse, and blocking automated attacks based on behavioral analysis. If you want to upgrade BIG-IP VE in the future, choose an image with 2 boot partitions. If you don't need an upgrade and are planning to create a new instance when the new version of BIG-IP VE is released, choose an image with 1 launch partition. Accelerate and simplify your BIG-IP VE deployment using the CloudFormation template from the F5 Networks GitHub repository. https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-aws-cloudformation