Choosing The Right Load Balancer And Application Delivery Controller As A Service For Azure
F5, Thursday, May 1,2025
Designing efficient and secure application delivery services architecture is critical to ensuring a seamless user experience for modern, distributed applications running in the public cloud.
Among the numerous components of cloud-native application delivery, the Application Delivery Controller as a Service, or ADCaaS, plays a pivotal role in load balancing, availability, observability, traffic optimization, application protection, and infrastructure automation.
While default ADCaaS tools offered by public cloud providers can be a strong starting point, they might not always align with advanced or highly specific requirements for customization and programmability, scalability, or visibility in your application delivery environment. This article recommends an approach for evaluating and choosing the ADCaaS for your applications running in Microsoft Azure-from leveraging the default tools to exploring third-party native cloud service alternatives.