A Broad-winged eagle in the center of gravity for Public Cloud
I want to tell you briefly about AVIATRIX, an Eagle with wide wings and with its center of gravity in the Public Cloud. https://aviatrix.com/
AVIATRIX has developed a multicloud solution that I had the pleasure of knowing last year, before COVID-19 appeared in our lives.
AVIATRIX is a software-defined multicloud networking solution. Its main offering focuses on creating a robust multi-cloud network architecture (which they have called MCNA) that is designed by implementing a data plane through dynamic and software-defined routing with a centralized control plane, which which invites us to think now, that it really aims to solve our headaches of managing multiple clouds.
One of the aspects that I could find super interesting is that security is integrated into the network architecture through segmentation, encryption, input/output filtering and the insertion of security services, the last one is about facilitating and simplify the tasks of inserting multi-cloud security services for our implementations in AWS, Azure, Oracle OCI and GCP networks. Please check this TechTalk posted on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzjcEmX71DQ
Image from Aviatrix community pages
Of course it leverages the cloud native build orchestration we currently consume, when needed, to build and control the enterprise network and overall architecture lifecycle management.
As the people of Aviatrix have said in their presentations: “The architecture is valid for a single cloud, single region, single cloud, multiple regions, or multiple clouds, multiple regions, and more.”
I like the idea of having a common and repeatable architecture across multiple clouds, which creates simplicity and abstraction for users by hiding all the underlying complexities and limitations of the market leading cloud service providers.
Exciting features were announced last year, for example: Aviatrix announced that it will be showcasing how enterprise customers are benefiting from its most recent achievement of AWS Outposts Ready designation and support for AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) as well as its multi- cloud transit capabilities for AWS Lambda serverless computing. This addresses the challenges of application modernization and cloud native application development.
I share an opinion that senior technical leaders at Aviatrix gave in reference to the offer they have with the Google Cloud Platform alliance:
“Aviatrix cloud networking solutions empowers CloudOps and cloud infrastructure engineers to self-sufficiently manage cloud network infrastructure and network security. The product is fully integrated with Google Cloud networking to enable CloudOps engineers to easily build and scale their hybrid or all-in-cloud environments on Google Cloud.
Aviatrix solutions complement Google Cloud networking capabilities by providing the following additional capabilities:
- SSL-based enterprise secure remote access.
- Encrypted multi-cloud peering.
- Encrypted cross-project peering.
- Encrypted site-to-Google Cloud scalable connectivity.
- Encryption on Cloud Interconnect.
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Source: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/partners/aviatrix-cloud-networking-for-gcp
And this is really true, in the proofs of concept where I participated as an Architect last year, I was able to verify firsthand that the promise is fulfilled.
I just want to invite you with this appetizer, to delve into this solution and build Architectures in your projects.
You can find the solution in the different Marketplaces of the leader providers:
AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile?id=ba8fdede-964b-475d-b679-0f9f899f6293
Oracle OCI: https://cloudmarketplace.oracle.com/marketplace/en_US/listing/63116599
Azure: https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps?search=Aviatrix&page=1
GCP: https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/browse?q=Aviatrix&filter=category:security,price:byol
