This Community and BYOL Edition offers all the features of the Pulse vTM and Pulse vWAF so you can use it in test, development & production environments but is limited to 10Mbps throughput & has a cluster limit of 4 instances. No support is available for the Community Edition. Resources and documentation are available via the Pulse user community. This high-performance Load Balancer & application delivery controller is designed to deliver fast, secure, reliable access to web sites & applications & offers HA via active-active deployment. To use this AMI to set up a BYOL License, please refer to the Getting Started Guide. The 18.3 version (or later) can be deployed on the nitro instance types. Older versions will also be limited to 1Mbps.

Pulse vTM controls & optimizes end-user services by inspecting, transforming, prioritizing & routing application traffic, applying a range of optimization techniques to ensure that incoming requests are presented in the most appropriate manner to back-end servers. Pulse vWAF surrounds applications with a strong security perimeter that establishes a secure session identifier, proactively encrypts cookies & URLs & applies site usage enforcement. Signatures & ID tools secure common vulnerabilities. Receive real-time alerts & reports, application behavior for full audit tracking & logging. Test rulesets in shadow mode prior to enforcing behavior & improve performance by creating white & black lists. It helps meet PCI-DSS 6.6 requirements.