🆚 F5 BIG-IP vs. F5 Distributed Cloud
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F5 BIG-IP is an enterprise-grade application delivery controller and full reverse proxy platform for managing, securing, and optimizing web and API traffic.
It offers programmable Layer 4-7 load balancing with advanced health checks, web application firewall protection against OWASP Top 10 threats, DDoS and bot mitigation, and access control and authentication options including Active Directory/LDAP/RADIUS, and single sign-on.
F5 Distributed Cloud is a SaaS-based platform that provides security, networking, and application management services across multi-cloud, on-premises, and edge environments.
It provides integrated WAF, API security, L7 DDoS mitigation, and 
bot defense, runs a global secured network designed to handle DDoS attacks exceeding 3 Tbps, and offers a 
Kubernetes-based application stack for multi-site deployment.
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Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the WAF category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the WAF category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the WAF category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the WAF category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in the United States in the WAF category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,827,731 websites. However, data for F5 Distributed Cloud is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.