Co-written withSunil Kishen, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft Azure Networking. Sunil is product lead for Azure Virtual WAN and Cisco-SDWAN joint solution as well the Azure Networking Managed Services Partner (MSP) Program.
Sunil can be reached at[email protected].

At the center of the rapidly transforming digital landscape in front of us sits our workloads and ability to access them. For the past 10 years, Microsoft Azure has enabled enterprises across the globe to build, test, deploy, and manage their applications and to ultimately succeed in their respective digital journeys. However, the reason why more than 95% of Fortune 500 companies choose Azure for their hybrid cloud and IaaS needs is not based on past success but rather based on a focused innovation. The partnership between Cisco and Microsoft Azure has continued the history of innovation to unlock an exponential increase in value to customers.

Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) will seamlessly integrate with Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN, with Public Preview starting on Sept 21^st, 2020. This integration allows customers to extend their Cisco SD-WAN to their Microsoft Azure Cloud and access Azure enterprise workloads with little or no additional configuration.

Cloud OnRamp and Virtual WAN

Released in 2016, the Cloud OnRamp for IaaS feature of Cisco SD-WAN has enabled customers to create transit virtual networks, bring up SD-WAN edge virtual routers, and interconnect them. However, the solution is an