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Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 08, 2018
Applicant:

F5 Networks, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Steve Dabell, Liberty Lake, WA (US);

Timothy Scott Michels, Liberty Lake, WA (US);

Thomas Troksa, Liberty Lake, WA (US);

Assignee:

F5 Networks, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/1023 (2013.01); H04L 43/08 (2013.01); H04L 67/101 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed technology includes accessing a first network application programming interface exposed by a first cloud provider of the plurality of cloud providers to identify a first pricing profile, the first pricing profile associated with the first Cloud provider. Upon identifying the first pricing profile, accessing a second network application programming interface exposed by a second cloud provider of the plurality of cloud providers to identify a second pricing profile, the second pricing profile associated with the second Cloud provider. A load balancing decision is determined comparing the identified first pricing profile with the identified second pricing profile. Next, the determined load balancing decision is executed on a monitored computing-traffic.


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