Overview
This offering includes a free, full featured 30-day trial as well as access to F5 premium support.
BIG-IP VE PAYG instances are available with GOOD, BETTER, and BEST (GBB) license bundles - more detailed information available at here.
The BETTER bundle includes:
BIG-IP LTM - Optimize app availability and user experience with intelligent L4-L7 load balancing, SSL/TLS offloading and visibility, and programmatic traffic manipulation with F5 iRules.
BIG-IP DNS - Direct globally distributed users to the closest or best performing app servers with global server load balancing and high-performance DNS services.
BIG-IP AFM - Mitigate resource and network crippling attacks with multi-layered DDoS protection and network security.
Combining BIG-IP VE with F5 Container Ingress Services (free & open-source) delivers advanced application services to container environments including Kubernetes.
Additionally, F5 has made it faster and easier to deploy and configure BIG-IP VE via the following mechanisms that can be integrated with all common automation and CI/CD tools:
For sales inquiries, contact our sales organization at here. and for all other general inquiries, email F5 at tellaskf5@f5.com .
Highlights
- Extend proven app services to AWS: Accelerate your cloud migration by taking your on-premises BIG-IP services and policies with you to AWS or any other environment.
- Fast, automated deployments: Leveraging F5's Automation Toolchain (inclusive of AWS CFT's), you can quickly automate the end-to-end deployment and configuration of BIG-IP VE instances, and integrate with your preferred choice of CI/CD and automation tools.
- Enterprise grade support network: F5 support centers are strategically located across the globe - offering support through native speaking support engineers who are available when you are.
Details
Typical total price
$2.482/hour
Pricing
Free trial
Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t3.medium | $2.29 | $0.042 | $2.332 |
t3.large | $2.29 | $0.083 | $2.373 |
m3.large | $2.29 | $0.133 | $2.423 |
m3.xlarge | $2.29 | $0.266 | $2.556 |
m3.2xlarge | $2.29 | $0.532 | $2.822 |
m4.large | $2.29 | $0.10 | $2.39 |
m4.xlarge | $2.29 | $0.20 | $2.49 |
m4.2xlarge | $2.29 | $0.40 | $2.69 |
m4.4xlarge | $2.29 | $0.80 | $3.09 |
m4.10xlarge | $2.29 | $2.00 | $4.29 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
For the hourly licensed AMI, F5 does not offer refunds, you may cancel at any time.
Legal
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Additional details
Usage instructions
Before deploy: Create a key pair and VPC (if none exists).
After deploy: Wait approximately 6 minutes before logging in. SSH (login w/ your ssh key as username 'admin') to the instance and run these tmsh commands to set the admin password (GUI User, not SSH): modify auth user admin password save sys config.
Log into the Config utility web page: If only one NIC was present during deploy, use https://[eth0-IP]:8443. If more than one NIC was present during deploy, use https://[eth0-IP]:443. Ensure your security groups allow access to the required port.
For details, see: http://clouddocs.f5.com/cloud/public/v1/aws_index.html https://support.f5.com/csp/knowledge-center/cloud/Public%20Cloud/Amazon%20Web%20Services
Resources
Support
Vendor support
You can open a support case in the F5 WebSupport Portal , review additional F5 technical support documentation here or contact F5 support directly (24x7x365):
- North America: 1-888-882-7535
- Outside North America: +800 11 ASK 4 F5 (800 1127 5435)
F5 support centers are strategically located for partners and customers in APAC, Japan, EMEA and North America. Regionally located support centers enable F5 to provide support in a number of languages through native-speaking engineers who are available when you are.
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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