New managed WAN service makes it faster and
easier for enterprises to build, manage, and monitor a global
network that seamlessly connects cloud and on-premises
environments
Cisco, Deloitte, Swisscom, Verizon, VMware, and
Flutter among customers and partners using AWS Cloud WAN
Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an
Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced AWS Cloud WAN, a
managed wide area network (WAN) service that makes it faster and
easier for enterprises to build, manage, and monitor a unified
global network that seamlessly connects cloud and on-premises
environments. AWS Cloud WAN provides a central dashboard that
enterprises can use to connect their on-premises branch offices,
data centers, and Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs)
across the AWS global network in just a few clicks. With AWS Cloud
WAN, enterprises can get a complete view of their global network
and use simple network policies to centrally configure and automate
network management and security tasks. AWS Cloud WAN enables
enterprises to use the AWS global network to provide a single
unified network, which allows them to improve network health,
performance, and security. To learn more about AWS Cloud WAN, visit
aws.amazon.com/cloud-wan.
Many enterprises today run their operations across multiple
environments, including on-premises data centers, branch offices,
and AWS. To connect these environments together, customers build
and manage their own global networks, while also leveraging
networking, security, and internet services from multiple
third-party providers. For connectivity between cloud environments,
customers use AWS networking services like Amazon VPC to easily
build a logically isolated virtual network on AWS, and AWS Transit
Gateway to easily interconnect multiple VPCs. For connectivity
between cloud and on-premises environments, customers use AWS
Direct Connect to easily create a private connection between AWS
and their data centers, or create a secure AWS virtual private
network (VPN) connection. However, for connectivity between
on-premises data centers and branch offices, customers must invest
considerable time and money to build their own physical network or
build a software-defined overlay network from third-party
providers. All of these networks take a different approach to
connectivity, security, monitoring, and managing performance, which
results in an intricate patchwork of individual networks that is
complicated to configure, secure, and manage. As a result of these
burdens, networking teams struggle with managing an expanding mix
of network technologies that are required to securely build, scale,
and operate a global network.
AWS Cloud WAN is a managed WAN service that connects on-premises
data centers, branch offices, and cloud resources to simplify
operating a global network. With AWS Cloud WAN, enterprises can use
a central dashboard and network policies to build, manage, and
monitor a global network that spans multiple locations and
networks—eliminating the need to configure and manage different
networks individually using different technologies. Network teams
can use simple network policies to specify the Amazon VPCs and
on-premises locations they want to connect through AWS VPN, AWS
Direct Connect, AWS Transit Gateway, and third-party
software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) products, and AWS Cloud WAN generates
a complete view of the network to monitor network health, security,
and performance. Teams can also use network policies to automate
routine network-management tasks like adding new sites or branch
locations, isolating traffic between sensitive applications or
locations, segmenting groups of networks to make it easier to
manage network isolation between AWS and on-premises environments,
or enabling specialized network or security services. For example,
customers can increase their security posture by creating a policy
that ensures that any network traffic from their branch locations
must be routed through a network firewall before reaching their
cloud resources. AWS Cloud WAN integrates with major SD-WAN and
network appliance providers—including Aruba (a Hewlett Packard
Enterprise company), Cisco Systems, Palo Alto Networks, and
VMware—allowing customers to use and manage products and services
from these providers. Enterprises can now use AWS Cloud WAN to
simplify the way they build, manage, and monitor their networks
with a central control plane.
“We hear from customers that they are tired of the complexity of
managing multiple networks with different connectivity, security,
and monitoring requirements using multiple third-party products and
services,” said David Brown, Vice President of Amazon EC2 at AWS.
“With AWS Cloud WAN, customers can simplify how they manage a WAN
by using a central dashboard to unify the multiple networks they
manage today, implement network policies for performance and
security, easily add locations, and automate advanced network
settings. AWS Cloud WAN removes the difficulty of stitching
together and managing multiple third-party tools so customers can
now more easily keep their networks securely connected and high
performing.”
To get started, customers connect their on-premises environments
to AWS with the help of a telecommunications service provider.
These connections bridge the gap between the customer’s data
centers or colocation facilities and the AWS network, extending
their existing WAN network to the cloud. Customers can then deploy
a highly available global network by selecting the AWS Regions
closest to their on-premises locations and then easily add or
remove remote locations, data centers, or Amazon VPCs to and from
their global network with just a few clicks in the AWS Cloud WAN
console or using the AWS Cloud WAN application programming
interface (API). AWS Cloud WAN is available in preview today in US
East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), Africa (Cape Town),
Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific
(Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), Europe
(Frankfurt), and South America (São Paulo) with availability in
additional AWS Regions coming soon.
Cisco is the worldwide leader in technology that powers the
Internet. “Today’s workforce demands more flexibility, meaning
organizations must ultimately rethink how they provide simple,
secure connectivity to cloud applications, no matter where the user
is located,” said JL Valente, Vice President of Product Management,
Enterprise Routing, and SD-WAN at Cisco. “To help our customers not
only meet the demands of a hybrid workforce, but also provide true
end-to-end connectivity and security, Cisco has integrated Cisco
SD-WAN with the AWS Cloud WAN service so customers can use
automation to interconnect their users, sites and cloud workloads,
reduce deployment time, and increase application performance with
AWS’s global cloud network.”
Deloitte is one of the largest professional services firms in
the world and a leader in digital transformation strategy. Through
a network of more than 345,000 professionals, industry specialists,
and an ecosystem of alliances, Deloitte assists clients in turning
complex business issues into opportunities for growth. “In our work
with clients’ networking challenges, Deloitte strives to streamline
network configuration and operation/support of large-scale cloud
network environments,” said Richard Johnson, DC Managing Director
at Deloitte. “AWS Cloud WAN addresses network complexity, provides
visibility, and offers opportunity to become more operationally
effective.”
Swisscom is Switzerland’s leading telecom provider and one of
its foremost IT companies, serving customers that range from
small-to-medium enterprises to large international corporations
that have operations in Switzerland. “We are always looking for
innovations that help us deliver the network of the future to our
customers, innovating ahead of their needs,” said Christoph
Aeschlimann, CTIO at Swisscom. “We look to services like AWS Cloud
WAN as a powerful way to help our customers take their business to
the next level in agility, scalability, and competitiveness.”
Verizon is one of the world’s leading providers of technology
and communications services. “As a company that's been a global
innovator in SD-WAN since the inception of the technology with the
first global SD-WAN offering, we look forward to collaborating with
AWS on this service that will give enterprises a new tool set to
manage their unified global networks,” said Srini Kalapala, Vice
President of Technology Development and Planning at Verizon.
VMware is a leading innovator in enterprise software and cloud
services for all apps, enabling digital innovation with enterprise
control. “AWS and VMware continue to help mutual customers shift to
distributed work, extend environments to the edge, and optimize
security and performance of their business-critical apps,” said
Sanjay Uppal, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Service
Provider and Edge Business Unit at VMware. “Enterprises don’t want
to just connect to AWS; they want more controlled secure access and
reliable connectivity to access apps and data inside AWS. Combining
VMware Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) with AWS Cloud WAN enables
enterprises to deliver a more optimized and secure on-net
experience for distributed environments. VMware SASE will better
assure last mile reliability, maintain network segmentation
end-to-end, and enable enterprise control and compliance.”
Flutter is a global leader in online sports betting and gaming,
with over 14 million customers globally. “To keep up with rapid
growth and demand for real-time data, we built a global network
with services from AWS that seamlessly connects our group divisions
around the world. We recently went live and we have already seen
significant improvements,” said Rupesh Kapadia, Head of Cloud,
Operations & Workplace Technology at Sportsbet, the Australian
division of Flutter. “Onboarding a new business to our legacy
network would take months, however it now takes about five days to
connect a new division to the group. AWS Cloud WAN will help us add
new sites to our network even faster, whilst improving the
visibility, security posture, and speed to change ahead of business
expectations.”
About Amazon Web Services
For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been
continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud
workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for
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learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things
(IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR
and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and
management from 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions,
with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more
AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New
Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. Millions
of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest
enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power
their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn
more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.
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