Building F5 BIG-IP to Speak S3-Compatible Storage
F5, Thursday, June 18th, 2026
F5 adds native S3 command support to BIG-IP iRules plus validated deployment guides for MinIO and Dell ObjectScale.
The article describes how F5 BIG-IP is evolving into a load-balancing front door for S3-compatible storage facing unprecedented demand from AI workloads. F5 introduced upcoming native S3 command support in iRules, which simplifies policy writing by eliminating HTTP-level complexity, along with validated deployment guides for BIG-IP with MinIO AIStor and Dell ObjectScale clusters.
These enhancements position BIG-IP to better distribute traffic, prevent attacks, and maintain stability than storage platforms can achieve on their own.