Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company announced Aruba SD-WAN support and integration with Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) new AWS Cloud WAN, a cloud networking service introduced at AWS re:Invent.
The solution enables Aruba customers to use the policy-based framework of AWS Cloud WAN to create advanced WAN topologies with integrated network segmentation that aligns with the Aruba SD-WAN fabric. Now, all the advantages of network segmentation at the edge – in the LAN and WAN – can be extended from headquarters and branches across the AWS cloud.
As organizations use the cloud to host their business applications, they want the most flexible and modern SD-WAN solution that lets them achieve the highest return on cloud investments through better economics, control, reliability and performance. Of equal importance, these organizations want to leverage cloud infrastructures like the AWS global network to build more flexible and secure enterprise WANs.
Aruba’s SD-WAN solutions, an integral part of Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform), provide enterprises with a sophisticated, flexible on-ramp to AWS network services, allowing users to integrate their SD-WAN with a range of hybrid and multi-cloud services. Aruba’s integration with AWS Cloud WAN provides complete support for cloud connectivity use cases which extend LAN/WAN network segmentation and traffic isolation from the edge to and through the AWS global backbone network.
The benefits of LAN/WAN segmentation with AWS Cloud WAN include:
- Improved network security from edge to cloud
- Faster spin-up of new branch sites and Cloud
Organizations can extend policy-based network segmentation from the branch edge – which spans the campus, branch, microbranch, and remote worker solutions – into the AWS global network. Aruba SD-WAN integration with AWS Cloud WAN is enabled through Aruba Orchestrator and Aruba Central, making it easy to deploy, manage, and operate sophisticated WAN networks over AWS. Aruba Orchestrator now also supports automated “one-click” deployment of EdgeConnect SD-WAN instances directly into AWS VPC’s. This automation capability is integrated with EdgeConnect’s zero-touch provisioning workflow, and further simplifies the deployment and commissioning process for solutions using Cloud WAN.
The Aruba SD-WAN solution with AWS Cloud WAN will be generally availabile in 2022. For more information, visit https://www.arubanetworks.com/partners/technology-partners/aws-solutions/
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