BIG-IP Virtualized Edition (VE) is an industry-leading application delivery controller and security services platform. From intelligent L4-L7 load balancing, traffic management, and SSL service offload to application access, acceleration, and security, BIG-IP VE ensures that your apps are fast, highly available, and secure at all times. 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-layer DDoS protection and cybersecurity.
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 of OWASP's top ten attack types.
Advanced WAF — Includes all ASM features while providing bot attack mitigation for mobile apps, login credential theft and abuse prevention, and blocking automated attacks based on behavioral analysis. If you want to upgrade your BIG-IP VE in the future, select an image with 2 boot partitions. (If you don't need to upgrade and plan to create a new instance when a new version of BIG-IP VE is released), choose an image with 1 boot partition. Accelerate and simplify your BIG-IP VE deployment with CloudFormation templates from the F5 Networks GitHub repository. https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-aws-cloudformation