F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition combines the power of the BIG-IP platform with the convenience and agility of the public cloud. You get the same advanced F5 app services, delivered how and where you need them.

BIG-IP Virtual Edition is the industry’s most scalable virtual application delivery controller, facilitating high-performance application delivery and security. BIG-IP VE supports the same market-leading app services suite as physical BIG-IP appliances, enabling configurations and policies to be replicated, reused, and centrally managed anywhere.

BIG-IP VE PAYG instances are available with GOOD, BETTER, and BEST (GBB) license bundles.

F5 virtual editions are available for all BIG-IP modules and can be purchased based on throughput tier from 25 Mbps to the 200 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 5 Gbps, and 10 Gbps production licenses.

The BEST bundle includes:

BIG-IP LTM - Optimize app availability and user experience with intelligent L4-L7 load balancing, SSL/TLS offloading and visibility, and programmatic traffic manipulation with F5 iRules.

BIG-IP DNS - Direct globally distributed users to the closest or best performing app servers with global server load balancing and high-performance DNS services.

BIG-IP AFM - Mitigate resource and network crippling attacks with multi-layered DDoS protection and network security.

BIG-IP APM - Provide secure, anytime, anywhere access with application authentication (SAML, OAuth & OIDC), authorization and end-point inspection, as well as SSL VPN, Single-Sign-On (SSO) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

BIG-IP Advanced WAF - WAF protection for applications, securing against a breadth of application layer threats, including L7 DoS, bot attacks, and all OWASP top 10 attack types. Provides regulatory compliance with PCI-DSS, HIPAA, FIPS 140-2 and more.

Combining BIG-IP VE with F5 Container Ingress Services (free & open-source) delivers advanced application services to container environments including Kubernetes.

Additionally, F5 has made it faster and easier to deploy and configure BIG-IP VE via CI/CD tools.