Multi-Cloud Networking with Aviatrix
Aviatrix solves multi cloud environment problem by providing a point for connectivity between the major cloud providers including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. In addition, Aviatrix provides a centralized control to manage, monitor and troubleshoot and encrypted IPSEC tunnel connections between clouds.
Three key components — Controller, Gateways, and CoPilot — form the foundation of Aviatrix’s MultiCloud Network Architecture. The Controller provides centralized management and control, while the Gateways handle the actual traffic and ensure secure connectivity. CoPilot offers real-time visibility and monitoring, empowering administrators to make data-driven decisions and proactively manage the network.
Aviatrix Controller auto discovers AWS VPCs, Azure VNETs, GCP VPCs in multiple cloud accounts and their associated IP information. Aviatrix uses policy-based and software-defined routing to establish dynamic connections between VNETs and VPCs. Its auto-discovery feature eliminates the need for administrators to possess extensive expertise. Moreover, the Multi Cloud functionality ensures high availability connections for redundancy and fault tolerance. Additionally, Aviatrix enables the connection of private cloud and on-premises sites through the utilization of the Site-to-Cloud VPN solution.
Connecting multiple public clouds together can be a challenge, as direct communication between them is not straightforward. One option is to route the traffic through your own environment, but this is inefficient and costly. Aviatrix addresses this issue by abstracting the underlying networking and acting as a common factor on both sides. It simplifies multi-cloud peering by managing the connection between clouds using native APIs. Once both clouds are brought under Aviatrix’s management, creating a peer between the selected VPCs or equivalent resources becomes a simple task. Aviatrix even suggests that if the on-premises connectivity is taking too long, it can expedite the onboarding process of the second cloud by allowing traffic to flow through the peering connection and reach the on-premises environment via that route.
Some solutions provided by Aviatrix:
-Multi-Cloud Networking: Aviatrix simplifies connectivity and networking across multiple public cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and others.
-Multi-Cloud Peering: Aviatrix enables easy and efficient peering between VPCs or equivalent resources in different cloud environments, allowing them to communicate seamlessly.
-Centralized Control and Management: Aviatrix Controller provides a centralized platform for managing and monitoring multi-cloud environments, allowing administrators to configure and enforce policies from a single interface.
-Encrypted IPSEC Tunnel Connections: Aviatrix facilitates the establishment and management of encrypted IPSEC tunnel connections between clouds, ensuring secure and private communication.
-Policy and Software-Defined Routing: Aviatrix utilizes policy-based and software-defined routing to dynamically connect VNETs and VPCs, allowing for efficient traffic flow and segmentation based on predefined trust boundaries.
-Auto Discovery: Aviatrix’s auto-discovery feature automatically detects and integrates with cloud resources, eliminating the need for manual configuration and reducing administrative complexity.
-High Availability (HA) Connections: Aviatrix supports high availability connections, ensuring redundancy and fault tolerance in multi-cloud setups. It handles failover scenarios to maintain seamless connectivity.
-Site-to-Cloud VPN: Aviatrix enables the secure connection of private cloud and on-premise sites to the cloud using its Site-to-Cloud VPN solution. This allows for seamless integration and secure communication between different environments.
-Network Visibility and Monitoring: Aviatrix provides comprehensive network visibility and monitoring capabilities, allowing administrators to track traffic, monitor performance, and troubleshoot issues effectively.
-Automation and Orchestration: Aviatrix offers automation and orchestration capabilities, allowing for streamlined deployment, configuration, and management of multi-cloud networking infrastructure.
Some common enterprise use cases are shown below:
- Datacenter to cloud (Aviatrix Transit Network solution)
Scalable Firewall deployment in the cloud (Firewall Network)
-Cloud to cloud VPN (Encrypted peering connectivity in a cloud and multi cloud )
-User to cloud VPN (Remote user VPN (OpenVPN® based SSL VPN solution) for developers)
-Site to cloud VPN (Branch and customer sites to cloud)
Multicloud VPN (Multicloud Peering)
Conclusion: Aviatrix offers a robust and comprehensive solution for managing multi-cloud networking environments. With its centralized control and management platform, encrypted IPSEC tunnel connections, policy-based routing, and auto-discovery capabilities, Aviatrix simplifies the complexity of multi-cloud networking. Its high availability connections, Site-to-Cloud VPN solution, and network visibility and monitoring features further enhance the security, performance, and manageability of multi-cloud deployments. By leveraging Aviatrix’s automation and orchestration capabilities, organizations can streamline the deployment and management of their multi-cloud networking infrastructure. With a wide range of solutions and use cases, Aviatrix empowers enterprises to maximize the potential of their multi-cloud environments while ensuring secure and efficient communication between cloud providers.
