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1. F5 BIG-IP: Secure Application
and Data Security Services
Nick Matthews Partner Solutions Architect, AWS
Robert Haynes Solution Architect, F5

2. Agenda
 Networking on AWS
 About F5
 Customer story: Alberta Motor Association
 Q&A

3. Cloud Performance is Only as Good as
Network Performance
The benefits of cloud computing are well-proven
But your networking performance determines to what degree you will derive those benefits
Scalability Security Global Footprint Cost-effectiveness

4. Core Networking Offerings
Amazon VPC AWS Direct
Connect
Amazon Route 53Amazon Elastic
Load Balancing
AWS offers a wide variety of networking services, with four at
the center:

5. Layers of Networking on AWS
Region
AZ
VPC
Subnet
Routing Table
Network ACL
Security Group

6. Amazon VPC
 Choose from multiple connectivity options including public internet, Network Address
Translation, encrypted VPN, and more
 Quickly and easily provision and configure using the AWS Management Console
 Leverage multiple layers of security to protect your applications and environment, including
access control lists, dedicated hardware, and more
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) lets you provision a logically
isolated section of the AWS cloud where you can launch resources in
a virtual network you define

7. AWS Direct Connect
AWS Direct Connect gives you dedicated
network connections between your on-premises
data center and AWS
 Can reduce bandwidth costs
 Delivers more consistent network performance with
reduced latency
 Compatible with all AWS services
 Elastically scales to meet your specific needs
Direct Connect
Location
IPVPN
/ MPLS
Point to point
Customer
Data Center
Customer
Office
Customer
Office
Customer
Office

8. Elastic Load Balancing
Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application
traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances and Availability Zones
 Enables fault tolerance, with less manual intervention in applications
 Ensures that only healthy Amazon EC2 instances receive traffic; traffic is re-routed to a
new Availability Zone if all Amazon EC2 instances are unhealthy
 Meets application traffic demands by automatically scaling its request handling capacity

9. Amazon Route 53
Amazon Route 53 is designed to reliably and cost-effectively route end-
users to internet applications
 Connects user requests to infrastructure running in AWS, and can also be used to route
users to infrastructure outside of AWS
 Monitor application and end-point health, or re-route traffic to healthy end-points with DNS
health checks
 Meets application traffic demands by automatically scaling request handling capacity
 Manage traffic globally with Traffic Flows – route users to application end-points through a
single region, or around the globe

10. Augment Your Network with AWS Marketplace Offerings
ISVs in AWS Marketplace offer solutions for a wide variety
of use cases:
Routing VPN Application Delivery Firewalling

11. F5 Networks

12. About F5
 Seattle based company
 Develops products to strengthen application and network security,
performance, and availability
 48 out of the Fortune 50 companies rely on F5 currently
1:1 9.2 24/7
Personalized support Customer
satisfaction rating
Worldwide response

13. What makes us different?
ADC leader in
Gartner Magic
Quadrant for 10
consecutive years
Minimizes risk and
business impact
when moving
mission-critical
apps to the cloud
Consolidates
multiple security,
remote access,
performance, and
app delivery
functionalities into a
single platform
Customers can
apply same policies
on-premises and on
the cloud

14. F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition provides
Intelligent traffic
management
Enhanced network
security
Total application
security

15. F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE)
F5 BIG-IP ensures business critical apps and networks are:
Fast Available Secure

16. F5 and AWS introduction
Efficiency
Rapidly provision intelligent
services into the cloud and
in your existing datacenter
using the same code,
advanced app services,
and breadth of features
Agility
Quickly and efficiently spin
up or down the leading app
resources you need to
control app acceleration,
security and availability
Flexibility
Flexible deployment
options to meet your
current goals and add
modular BIG-IP application
delivery services

17. When to use F5 BIG-IP
Functionality
When you need features
beyond basic load balancing
or application load balancing
Programmability
When you want to write code that
programs the application traffic,
the infrastructure, or the network
Compatibility
When you want to deploy
consistent application delivery and
security policies both on-premises
and in the cloud

18. Scaling and HA
Designed for HA Auto-Scale Aware Auto-Scale Ready

19. Leveraging existing AWS infrastructure
• F5 offers 3 flexible licensing models: Good, Better, and Best
• Offered through Amazon Test Drive
• Option to Bring Your Own License (BYOL)
Amazon EC2 Amazon EBS Amazon VPC

20. F5 on AWS features and benefits
Hybrid Cloud Confidence
Provides critical app
delivery services
consistently from existing
datacenters to the Cloud
Secure Apps Anywhere
Uses deep app intelligence
and visibility to provide a
consistent level of
protection wherever your
apps reside
Increase Business Agility
Provides the flexibility to
scale at will based on
shifting hardware, software,
and on-demand
requirements

21. Customer success story:
Alberta Motor Association

22. About Albert Motor Association (AMA)
Membership organization
part of the Canadian
Automobile Association and
American Automobile
Association family
Provides roadside
assistance to motorists
travelling in Alberta
Offers driver education,
insurance, financial and
travel agency services

23.  Web team was presented with a difficult
project and a tight timeline
 Project included building staging,
development, and production
environments
 AMA executive team concerned with
security for confidential customer data
 Web team needed faster turnaround to
do their jobs effectively
AMA’s requirements

24. Why AMA chose F5 on AWS
AMA was familiar with
F5’s cloud-optimized
licensing
Pay-as-you-go option
from AWS
Intuitive web interface
that allows their web
team to adapt quickly

25.  Deployed BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager to load balance
the traffic between their AWS Cloud Availability zones
 Utilized BIG-IP Application Security Manager to ensure
that their web applications receive same high level
protection as their on-premises applications
 Built a platform that met both the web team’s agility needs
and fulfilled their corporate security requirements
F5’s solution

26. Benefits realized/conclusion/future projects
Decreases IT
workload, using
fewer resources
Self-provisioning,
boosting agility
Eases the transition
to the cloud
Delivers on-
premises security –
on the cloud

27. Q&A