F5 Distributed Cloud Platform offers better functionality, advanced security controls and simplified operations than native cloud services. A cloud-based platform designed to support distributed applications in multi-cloud, edge, and on-premises environments. New highly distributed architectures that are more complex, cost-effective, and risky as applications evolve through microservices, increased dependencies on APIs, and other methods of integrating them, will be a major factor in increasing complexity, risks, and costs. To deliver apps, multiple appliances, software and connectivity services must all be deployed and managed. Traditional CDNs and hub/spoke networks are not suitable for large-scale, immersive SaaS apps. Automation is required for services that have different APIs, policies, or observability. Apps that are deployed in distributed environments may not be equally protected. It is difficult to align DevOps and NetOps across service provisioning, security using ticket-based workflows, and SecOps.