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Amazon Web Services Inc. AWS an Amazon.com Inc. company announced the general availability of AWS Cloud WAN a new managed wide area network WAN service that connects on-premises data centers colocation facilities branch offices and cloud resources to simplify operating a global network. Using a central management dashboard built into AWS Cloud WAN customers can define their network configuration view the health of their global network and automate routine configuration and security tasks. With AWS Cloud WAN enterprises can access the AWS global network to build a single unified network for their organization to improve network health performance and security. Many enterprises today run their networks across multiple environments including on-premises data centers colocation facilities branch offices and the cloud. To connect these disparate environments together customers build and manage their own global networks while also leveraging networking security and internet services from multiple third-party providers. AWS makes it easy for customers to connect cloud and on-premises environments using AWS networking services e.g. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Direct Connect. However for connectivity between on-premises data centers and branch offices customers must invest considerable time and money to build their own physical network or build a software-defined overlay network from third-party providers. This leads to a complex web of networks each having different connectivity security monitoring and performance management tools and requirements. As a result networking teams face challenges configuring securing and managing an expanding mix of technologies required to build scale and operate a secure global network for their organizations.AWS Cloud WAN makes it faster and easier for customers to build manage and monitor a unified global network that seamlessly connects their cloud and on-premises environments. AWS Cloud WAN allows customers to connect on-premises data centers colocation facilities branch offices and AWS Regions into a single unified global network with just a few clicks in a central management dashboardremoving the need to configure and manage individual networks that use different technologies. Using the central management dashboard networking teams can have a single view of their global network apply policies and automate configuration and security tasks across their entire network. For example with just a few clicks teams can quickly and easily apply a policy that requires network traffic from branch offices to be routed through a specific network firewall before reaching cloud resources running in an AWS Region. AWS Cloud WAN integrates with leading SD-WAN network appliance and independent software vendorsincluding Aruba Aviatrix Checkpoint Cisco Meraki Cisco Systems Prosimo and VMwaremaking it easier for customers to connect their on-premises SD-WAN devices to AWS. Enterprises can now use AWS Cloud WAN to simplify the way they build manage and monitor their networks using a single dashboard with minimal complexity.Many wide area networks used by enterprises today consist of a patchwork of connections between branch offices and data centers that were optimized for applications that run on premises said David Brown vice president of Amazon EC2 at AWS. As the edge of the cloud continues to be pushed outward and more customers move their applications to AWS to become more agile reduce complexity and save money they need an easier way to evolve their networks to support a modern distributed model that allows them to reach their customers and end users globally with high performance. With AWS Cloud WAN enterprises can simplify their operations and leave the time-consuming task of managing complex webs of networks behind.To get started customers can build their global networks in the AWS Cloud WAN central management dashboard by first selecting the AWS Regions closest to their on-premises locations and adding their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds. After extending their existing WAN to AWS customers can add and remove remote locations and data centers with just a few clicks in the dashboard or by using the AWS Cloud WAN application programming interface API. AWS Cloud WAN is available in US East Ohio US East N. Virginia US West N. California Africa Cape Town Asia Pacific Mumbai Asia Pacific Singapore Asia Pacific Sydney Asia Pacific Tokyo Canada Central Europe Frankfurt Europe Ireland Europe Milan Europe Paris Europe Stockholm and Middle East Bahrain. Avalara builds cloud-based tax compliance solutions for businesses of all sizes across industries globally addressing needs from indirect tax calculation returns remittance and document management to business licensing tax answers insurance premium tax property tax compliance and more. We expect AWS Cloud WAN to provide us the opportunity to transform our network by interconnecting our global AWS presence while ensuring segmentation of business functions said Brian Capps senior director of network engineering at Avalara. We expect it to simplify management routing and securityconsolidating complex configurations to be deployed as infrastructure as code.
