What Is AWS’s New Cloud WAN, and How Will It Impact Cloud Networking? | Deloitte US has been saved
A blog post by Paul Borghese, DC Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP
At the AWS New York Summit, Amazon announced general availability for its AWS Cloud WAN services. At Deloitte, we cannot be more excited with the design opportunity this allows. Cloud WAN is a game changer and a welcome addition to our networking toolkit.
Networking at its core is a service allowing corporate end devices and users access to corporate compute resources. The gravity of the network follows the location of the compute, usually in a data center. A traditional network design connected corporate sites such as offices and manufacturing to the primary and backup data centers. The data centers contained a robust networking and security capability quickly routing traffic to all destinations in the network. The data center was the hub of the corporate network.
Along with Cloud WAN, AWS recently announced SiteLink, a service that enhances and integrates perfectly with Cloud WAN. SiteLink allows two customer remote sites to use AWS for network transport. With the combination of the capability of SiteLink and the power of Cloud WAN, the future of corporate wide area networking starts to come into focus. Instead of MPLS or SD-WAN connecting into a private data center, the gravity of the network shifts to links connecting into AWS, with AWS becoming the primary transport. And as always, you only pay for what you consume with availability on-demand.
Within the network community there is a lot of discussion around software defined networking and programmability. Soon “public cloud” may be added to the discussion.
Our Cloud WAN white paper has more details on how to integrate Cloud WAN with a Transit Gateway network.
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