F5 unveils NGINX for Microsoft Azure

F5 has announced the availability of F5 NGINX for Microsoft Azure, an Azure-native service offering developed in collaboration with Microsoft that enables customers to deliver modern applications on Azure with a few clicks.

Developers can use NGINX, the familiar and trusted load balancing solution, to lift and shift on-premises applications to Azure and deploy new, born-in-the-cloud services.

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated cloud migration, according to F5’s 2022 State of Application Strategy Report, with three-quarters of organizations deploying applications in public cloud environments. As cloud adoption grows, more than a quarter of organizations host application security and delivery services in the cloud.

“NGINX powers the world’s busiest websites with a suite of advanced connectivity, traffic management, and security solutions—all of which bring additional value to the Microsoft Azure ecosystem,” said Eric Braun, Vice President, NGINX Product Management, F5. “The combination of Microsoft’s trusted cloud and NGINX’s trusted software offered as a service on Azure enables developers and DevOps teams to optimize the performance, reliability, and security of their distributed applications and services at a global scale.”

“Development teams are constantly pushing the envelope as they innovate. Getting up and running on any project in minutes with a fully configured, secure, cloud-hosted environment empowers teams to achieve the goals of their business faster,” said Julia Liuson, President of the Developer Division, Microsoft. “Our collaboration with F5 will make it easier for application developers, IT operators, and service operation teams to respond more quickly to their customers by providing NGINX networking capabilities integrated natively into Microsoft Azure so they can deliver their applications with improved performance, reliability, and security.”

Developers, cloud architects, system architects, and other practitioners who want to run their applications on Azure require an easy migration path to the cloud, rapid and continuous delivery of secure digital services at scale, and application performance consistency across on-premises and cloud environments.

NGINX for Azure addresses these needs by enabling enterprises to:

• Seamlessly lift and shift applications from on-premises to cloud by bringing their existing NGINX configuration
• Employ advanced traffic management capabilities for delivery of secure and reliable applications and services
• Reduce learning curve and simplify cloud adoption with built-in deep integrations: Azure Monitor for app insights and visibility and Azure Key Vault for SSL/TLS certificate management

Enterprises achieve consistency in performance and security by using the same load balancing solution across their estate of applications on-premises and on Azure, resulting in a superior digital experience for their customers. NGINX for Azure is now available for public preview in the Azure Marketplace.