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F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| F5 Distributed Cloud WAF managed service | One-, two-, or three-year subscriptions; cost depends on number of load balancers and service tier (Standard or Enhanced). · Standard or Enhanced managed service tiers | On request |
As f5.com lists them, read 13 Nov 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Facts from F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud's own pages
- AI risk scoring
- AI-driven risk scoring complements signature-based and behavioral tracking to improve detection and reduce false positives and manual tuning. · f5.com, 13 Nov 2026
- Anomaly detection
- Self-learning anomaly detection baselines traffic and scores real-time requests to flag exploits without manual tuning. · f5.com, 13 Nov 2026
- Behavioral defenses
- The behavior engine scores client interactions, including WAF rule hits, forbidden access attempts, login failures, and error rates. · f5.com, 13 Nov 2026
- DDoS protection
- The managed WAF service includes DDoS protection for an unlimited number of attacks. · f5.com, 13 Nov 2026
- Deployment environments
- The product can protect workloads in public clouds, on-premises data centers and edge sites, or F5 global-network points of presence. · f5.com, 13 Nov 2026
- Founded
- 1996 · f5.com, 19 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Seattle, Washington, United States · f5.com, 19 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The product page names Terraform, vesctl CLI, public APIs, Opsgenie, Slack, Splunk, and Datadog for automation and alerting/SIEM workflows. · f5.com, 13 Nov 2026
- Platform support
- Distributed Cloud Services support apps on public or private clouds running in virtual machines, containers, bare metal, or serverless environments. · f5.com, 13 Nov 2026
- Purpose
- The managed service detects and mitigates general, automated, and application-specific security threats against internet-facing web applications and data. · f5.com, 13 Nov 2026
- Security and compliance
- The managed WAF enforces industry security standards such as PCI DSS and supports OWASP application security protections. · f5.com, 13 Nov 2026
- Setup requirement
- A WAF must be attached to an HTTP/HTTPS load balancer to protect its application. · docs.cloud.f5.com, 13 Nov 2026
- Signature coverage
- The managed service uses attack signatures maintained by F5 Threat Labs and security engineers, plus customer-specific custom rules. · f5.com, 13 Nov 2026
- Support
- The managed service is supported 24/7 by F5 application security experts. · f5.com, 13 Nov 2026
- Threat intelligence
- Agentic Threat Intelligence correlates external threat trends with WAF telemetry and supplies prioritized daily briefings with virtual-patching recommendations. · f5.com, 13 Nov 2026
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