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I'm struggling to find conclusive answers to my questions. I see f5 BIG-IP everywhere but I first heard of it as being able to handle user control - which is what I'm looking for. I mention BIG-IP because it seems to be linked with AWS.

I find f5 can be used with Citrix. I thought Citrix was a competitor so that's confusing.

I'm using AWS. How can I improve security to my web projects hosted on AWS with f5 or Citrix or any other tool? I just need to more securely control user access to certain applications.

Ree
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Full disclosure: I work for F5. Our access control product is the BIG-IP Access Policy Manager, and is highly flexible and capable to sit in front of all kinds of applications, Citrix included.

Our product page for APM is here: https://f5.com/products/big-ip/access-policy-manager-apm and our community site has plenty of articles detailing deployment strategies: https://devcentral.f5.com/articles?tag=apm

One article highlighting a deployment of Citrix federated services behind the APM highlights the interoperability of F5 with other vendors: https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/citrix-federated-authentication-service-integration-with-apm-24489.

Jason Rahm
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  • Does this mean APM cannot be used without BIG-IP? – Ree May 17 '17 at 16:21
  • BIG-IP is the platform, APM is a module on the platform. So you can license only APM if you want. – Jason Rahm May 18 '17 at 21:41
  • And I can use APM without having BIG-IP installed? Sorry - I'm just trying to get my head around everything. – Ree May 22 '17 at 13:40
  • BIG-IP APM ... BIG-IP is the platform, APM is the product. So you can license the product APM by itself, which runs on the BIG-IP platform. OR, you can license multiple products like LTM, ASM, APM, all on the BIG-IP platform. Make sense? – Jason Rahm May 29 '17 at 03:15