Last year there was a downtime of 30 minutes across the cloud distributed console, and that was the only impact observed. Since 30 minutes of downtime is huge for applications, maintenance, it impacted RPO, RTO, and all. The F5 CTO and their senior management team addressed that issue. For availability, they have added additional clusters across all the regional edges in the Kubernetes clusters to enhance availability. However, this improvement needs to be monitored since it was a past incident.
It's a long way to be perfect, of course, as with all solutions. The main issue is integration with other parts or products of F5, like on-premise WAF. There are some problems, mainly from the perspective of implementation and customer expectations, which sometimes differ from reality.
CDNs, or Content Delivery Networks, improve the speed and efficiency of web content delivery by caching content on geographically distributed servers, reducing latency and server load.A CDN enhances website performance by distributing content across multiple servers around the globe. This distribution allows users to access data from a server closer to their location, speeding up loading times and reducing latency. As a crucial component, CDNs support massive data traffic while maintaining...
Last year there was a downtime of 30 minutes across the cloud distributed console, and that was the only impact observed. Since 30 minutes of downtime is huge for applications, maintenance, it impacted RPO, RTO, and all. The F5 CTO and their senior management team addressed that issue. For availability, they have added additional clusters across all the regional edges in the Kubernetes clusters to enhance availability. However, this improvement needs to be monitored since it was a past incident.
It's a long way to be perfect, of course, as with all solutions. The main issue is integration with other parts or products of F5, like on-premise WAF. There are some problems, mainly from the perspective of implementation and customer expectations, which sometimes differ from reality.
The pricing could be adjusted to better meet the needs of typical customers in regions like Poland, where the product is considered too expensive.