As the SD-WAN enterprise customers increase their consumption of business-critical applications from cloud or directly as SaaS over the Internet, there is a growing need for on-demand SD-WAN extension to the cloud or SaaS of choice.

Cisco has partnered with AWS, to deliver Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp to extend our SD-WAN fabric to AWS workloads.

As our customers transition their workloads to AWS, Cisco continues to build on this partnership to accelerate our customer's SD-WAN journey to AWS.

In our current integrated solution between Cisco SD-WAN and AWS Transit Gateway, Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp enables users to connect to their AWS workloads using the Cisco SD-WAN controller(vManage). The Cloud OnRamp feature automates Cisco SD-WAN fabric extension from branch routers to Amazon VPCs. In addition, the integration with TGW Network Manager enables seamless network visibility either through vManage or AWS console. This provides a comprehensive view of the on-premises network, including the WAN, and the customer's AWS network. All underlying tasks such as spinning up Cisco SD-WAN cloud routers, such as Catalyst 8000V Edge Software, creating Transit VPC, and establishing IPsec VPN tunnels to AWS TGW and forming BGP adjacency are completely automated. In addition, customers can extend network segmentation policies from on-premises to AWS Cloud via a simple-to-use GUI in Cloud OnRamp.

The existing solution with Cloud OnRamp automates the entire orchestration of the TGW and VPC networking, hence reducing the time-consuming manual task to a matter of minutes.

We have integrated further with AWS on our current solution, for customers requiring throughputs in excess of the 1.25 Gbps that is possible today with an IPsec tunnel connection, and preferring not to manage establishing multiple tunnels to scale bandwidth beyond 1.25Gbps. While some other customers have security/compliance considerations and need to establish private IP addresses along the entire path from branch to AWS.

In response to our customer requirements, we are excited to announce our latest integration of Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp with AWS Transit Gateway Connect.

This latest offering with AWS Transit Gateway Connect, builds upon our existing AWS relationship to provide a tightly integrated solution with additional key benefits, like:

1. Reduced costs with higher bandwidth connections: The new integration between Cisco and AWS uses native GRE tunnels instead of IPsec tunnels, offering up to 4 times the bandwidth and eliminating the challenges and costs of establishing and maintaining a multitude of IPsec tunnels.
2. Enhanced security: By removing the need for public IP addresses, customers with strict security requirements can deploy the solution using private IP addresses to significantly reduce the attack surface reducing risk and streamlining compliance.
3. Increased route limit:This new architecture will increase the number of BGP network advertised routes many-fold over the existing 100 route limit. **
4. Increased visibility:Integration with Transit Gateway Network Manager will provide an increased level of visibility such as performance metrics and telemetry data not only from the third-party appliances but also from the branch appliances sitting behind them. This allows customers to monitor end-to-end network across AWS and on-premises. ***

Watch a demo of this new solution or read theAWS announcement.

"AWS has been working closely with Cisco to provide a cloud native way for customers to seamlessly onboard Cisco SD-WAN to AWS. The latest launch with AWS Transit Gateway Connect enables Cisco SD-WAN to significantly increase throughput up to 20x. Customers can utilize a single orchestration platform from Cisco SD-WAN to consume AWS workloads across regions worldwide and extend enterprise segmentation policies into AWS," said Mayumi Hiramatsu, Vice President, Amazon EC2 Networking.

Our newly enhanced solution with Catalyst 8000V cloud router seeks to address evolving customer demands as they expand their presence in AWS. Every product is a journey and not just a destination. We look forward to continuing our collaboration with AWS and improving our integration over time, while always seeking your valuable feedback.

Watch our webinar with AWS and ENGIE to learn more about Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp.

Or read our blog detailing the current solution.

* https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2020-08-10-gartner-says-worldwide-iaas-public-cloud-services-market-grew-37-point-3-percent-in-2019

** New route limit TBD. Feature release date TBD

*** Feature release date TBD

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