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F5 Distributed Cloud Services pros and cons

Vendor: F5
4.5 out of 5

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PROS

F5 Distributed Cloud Services provides a single unified console for security, network operations, and DevOps across all environments.
F5 Distributed Cloud Services is a market leader in load balancers and manages traffic efficiently.
F5 allows customers with existing modules to easily adopt additional modules without investing in new hardware.
Technical support from F5 is superior compared to Cisco and HP.
In a multi-cloud or distributed cloud, F5 offers comprehensive protection, including bot mitigation, data, web application, and API protection.

CONS

For small players, F5 Distributed Cloud Services is completely not worth it.
Pricing could be adjusted to better meet the needs of typical customers in regions like Poland, where it is considered too expensive.
Last year, there was a downtime of 30 minutes across the cloud distributed console, which was the only impact observed.
The main issue is integration with other parts or products of F5, such as on-premise WAF.
There are problems from the perspective of implementation and customer expectations, which sometimes differ from reality.
 

F5 Distributed Cloud Services Pros review quotes

reviewer2586870 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Oct 21, 2024
F5 is known for being the best load balancer in the market. Customers with an existing module can easily adopt additional modules without investing in new hardware.
FM
IT Analyst at Atlas.cz, a.s.
Jan 22, 2025
In a multi-cloud or distributed cloud, there are many protection possibilities from data to web application or API protection, including bot mitigation.
Mohan Janarthanan - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at Novac Technology Solutions
Feb 3, 2026
Technical support from F5 is good compared to Cisco and HP.
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Ricky Makkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Security Consultant at NTT DATA
Feb 26, 2026
F5 Distributed Cloud Services provides a single unified console for security operations, network operations, and DevOps across all environments.
 

F5 Distributed Cloud Services Cons review quotes

reviewer2586870 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Oct 21, 2024
The pricing could be adjusted to better meet the needs of typical customers in regions like Poland, where the product is considered too expensive.
FM
IT Analyst at Atlas.cz, a.s.
Jan 22, 2025
The main issue is integration with other parts or products of F5, like on-premise WAF.
Mohan Janarthanan - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at Novac Technology Solutions
Feb 3, 2026
Last year there was a downtime of 30 minutes across the cloud distributed console, and that was the only impact observed.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Microsoft, Akamai and others in CDN. Updated: March 2026.
884,873 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Ricky Makkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Security Consultant at NTT DATA
Feb 26, 2026
For small players, it is completely not worth it.