Central Licensing and Cloud Console were intended to supercede the original Pulse Service. In addition, the Bot Management Service for WAF is only available with Cloud Console.
The following services are available through Avi Pulse and Cloud Console respectively:
Pulse Services
IP Reputation service, a tool to identify, or categorize IP addresses based on the threats associated with them.
Application Signature, database updates for Application Rules in WAF Policy.
User Agent DB Sync, allows updates to the database used for BOT detection.
Enable Pulse WAF Management, allows automatic updates to WAF signatures via Pulse Services.
Cloud Console
Central Licensing, this enables zero-touch capacity management and cloud bursting (expand to the cloud for more capacity) for globally distributed NSX Advanced Load Balancer deployments.
Proactive Support, enables a zero-touch support experience by monitoring NSX Advanced Load Balancer deployments and creating VMware support cases automatically upon detecting issues.
Live Security Threat Intelligence, provides multiple live security feeds, for instance, WAF, BOT, IP Reputation, and so on to distributed, disparate environments to protect applications against threats that evolve in real-time.
While in some respects Cloud Console supplants the original Pulse Service, it is up to you as the customer to determine the solution for your environment.
