Audience

Development teams in search of a solution to simplify their cloud-based DNS management operations

About F5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer

Leverage an expertly engineered global load balancing platform on infrastructure that ensures fast performance. The DNS is fully configurable via APIs, with DDoS protection and no appliances to manage. Direct traffic to the nearest application instance and/or route traffic for GDPR compliancy. Split loads across compute instances. Detect failed or degraded resource instances and reroute clients. Maintain high availability with disaster recovery. Automatically detect primary site failures, get zero-touch failover, and dynamically fail applications over to designated or available instances. Simplify cloud-based DNS management and load balancing and get disaster recovery to ease the burden on your operations and development teams. F5’s cloud-based, intelligent DNS with global server load balancing (GSLB) efficiently directs application traffic across environments globally, performs health checks, and automates responses to activities and events to maintain high performance among apps.

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Yes, F5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer offers API access
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Company Information

F5
Founded: 1996
United States
www.f5.com/products/distributed-cloud-services/dns-load-balancer

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F5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer Product Features

Load Balancing

Content Routing Not Supported
Schedulers Not Supported
Data Compression Not Supported
Predefined Protocols Not Supported
Authentication Not Supported
Content Caching Not Supported
Redundancy Checking Not Supported
SSL Offload Not Supported
Reverse Proxy Not Supported
Automatic Configuration Not Supported
Health Monitoring Not Supported