F5’s new BIG-IP virtual solutions for Amazon Web Services (AWS) enable customers to extend their data centers to the cloud while keeping applications fast, secure, and available.

1. BIG-IP FOR AWS
F5 IN THE AMAZON CLOUD
November 2012

2. BIG-IP for AWS – Announcement Overview
November 27, 2012
F5’s introduces BIG-IP virtual solutions for Amazon Web Services
(AWS)
• Customers can extend their data centers to the cloud while
keeping applications fast, secure, and available
• All BIG-IP Virtual Editions available as an Amazon Machine
Image (AMI)
• Same BIG-IP code  same BIG-IP features and benefits
• Visit F5 at AWS re: Invent conference in Las Vegas (booth #406)

3. An Intelligent Services Platform
Physical
Virtual
Storage
An Intelligent Services Platform
connects any user, anywhere, from any
device to the best application resources,
independent of infrastructure.
Clients Cloud
Anywhere, any service, any device Intelligent Dynamic, agile, adaptive

4. Benefits of the Intelligent Services Platform with Amazon
Fast
Improves performance, increases employee productivity,
boosts business operations, and drives
e-commerce revenue.
DevCentral
Available
iRules iControl iApps
Efficiently delivers highly reliable application services while
maintaining maximum availability regardless of location or
conditions. Fast
Available
Secure
Secure
Delivers applications to mobile and remote users while
providing dynamic, flexible, and powerful security.
TMOS
Hardware Software

5. Improving the User Experience
with BIG-IP for AWS
Enterprise Data Center
AWS
• Improved resiliency for • Better application • Ability to leverage iRules
web front end monitoring for CDN redirects

6. Use Case: Online Advertising
• An online advertising customer has determined it is more cost-effective to leverage Amazon
Web Services than overprovisioning resources in the data center to handle sudden spikes in
demand.
• This customer’s hybrid cloud strategy based on the “own the base, rent the spike” philosophy.
Using BIG-IP and BIG-IP for AWS enables the customer to take advantage of both cloud and
the data center in the most cost-effective way.
“The Base”
Runs for
more than
18 hours a BIG-IP LTM
day
Traffic
spikes from
BIG-IP GTM
client
campaigns
“The Spike”
• GTM monitoring both • Leverage scripts to • Familiarity with F5
local and cloud BIG-IP automatically spin up solution
nodes as needed

7. BIG-IP for AWS - Details
• “Bring Your Own License”
- Purchase a license from F5 and apply to your AMI
- Licenses available: Lab, 200M, 1G
• Requires m3.xlarge, m3.2xlarge, or cc2.8xlarge Instance
- Initially available in N. Virginia, Oregon, Ireland, and GovCloud
• AMI must be inside a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- VPC is required to support multiple NICs
• Licenses for production use start at US $7,995
• Availability: By the end of CY12