F5 extends NGINX application delivery platform to Google Cloud with managed NGINXaaS launch

F5 has expanded its cloud-native application delivery portfolio with the launch of F5 NGINXaaS for Google Cloud, a fully managed, application delivery-as-a-service offering developed in collaboration with Google Cloud.

The move reflects growing enterprise demand for simplified, scalable application delivery and security as organisations modernise their application stacks, adopt containers and microservices, and increasingly deploy AI-enabled workloads. By offering NGINX as a managed service on Google Cloud, F5 is positioning itself to address operational complexity that often arises from fragmented load balancing, security, and observability tools.

Available via the Google Cloud Marketplace, F5 NGINXaaS consolidates Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing, traffic management, and security controls into a single managed service. The aim, according to F5, is to reduce tool sprawl, lower operational overhead, and help enterprises maintain consistent performance even as application architectures become more dynamic.

As cloud environments evolve to support AI-driven applications and ...