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● Secure and resilient cloud access: Ensures secure cloud and middle-mile networking with end-to-end encryption over AWS cloud routers and private backbone, applying consistent segmentation across global site-to-site, site-to-cloud, and cloud-to-cloud environments.
● Simplified IT operations: Reduces operational complexity by enabling on-demand global network deployment within minutes. This joint solution enhances management and operations through full network stack automation, centralized provisioning, and orchestration via Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager.
● Increased performance and visibility: Integrates with Cloud WAN to provide a high-performance, dynamic SD-WAN fabric, improving application performance with a guaranteed service-level agreement and consistent uptime of 99.99%*, alongside monitoring capabilities for both underlay and overlay networks.
● Organizations with deployments in one or multiple AWS regions seeking to connect their SD-WAN branches to global workloads.
● Organizations with existing Transit Gateways, or those planning to establish new Transit Gateways or a Cloud WAN core network.
● Organizations exploring alternative middle-mile network connectivity options that offer flexible consumption, enhanced reliability, and cost savings compared to traditional methods.
● Organizations aiming to utilize segmentation options, ensure end-to-end security, and benefit from a private backbone through AWS Cloud WAN or AWS Transit Gateway, alongside Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN for secure cloud and middle-mile access.
● Organizations in search of a managed solution for cloud workload connectivity.
● Organizations currently considering or utilizing both Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN and AWS.
● Global network expansion: Seamlessly extend your enterprise WAN to AWS regions worldwide, ensuring secure and efficient connectivity between sites, clouds, and regions.
● Interregional workload connectivity: Facilitate smooth communication and data exchange across different AWS regions, optimizing application performance and resource utilization.
● Simplified cloud management: Automate the deployment and management of cloud resources, reducing operational complexity and enhancing visibility through centralized controls.
● Enhanced security and segmentation: Implement robust security measures with native segmentation and unified global policies to protect data across SD-WAN and cloud environments.
● Dynamic and high-performance networking: Leverage AWS's global backbone to create a resilient and responsive network infrastructure, ensuring consistent uptime and performance.
● AWS Cloud WAN: Designed to simplify the management of a global network, AWS Cloud WAN provides a centralized hub to create, manage, and monitor a unified network across multiple regions. It supports automated network configuration and policy management, enabling efficient scalability and global connectivity.
● AWS Transit Gateway: Focused on connecting multiple VPCs and on-premises networks within a single region, AWS Transit Gateway acts as a regional hub for routing traffic between these networks. It facilitates peering connections and simplifies network topology within a region, but doesn't inherently offer the global management capabilities that AWS Cloud WAN provides.
● Cisco SD-WAN with AWS Transit Gateway (new Transit Gateway created) is available beginning with Cisco IOS® XE SD-WAN Release 17.5 and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Release 20.5
● Cisco SD-WAN with AWS Transit Gateway (existing Transit Gateway discovery and connection) is available beginning with Cisco IOS® XE SD-WAN Release 17.18 and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Release 20.18, scheduled for the second half of 2025.
● Cisco SD-WAN with AWS Cloud WAN is available beginning with Cisco IOS® XE SD-WAN Release 17.12 and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Release 20.12
1. Cisco Catalyst 8000V Edge Software license (priced by bandwidth) - needed for all solution types except Branch Connect which allows a branch to connect directly to the Transit Gateway
2. AWS Transit Gateway (priced by connections and data usage) or AWS Cloud WAN (priced by number of network edges, edge connections, and data usage)
1. The Catalyst 8000V can be ordered through the AWS Marketplace with the Pay-as-You-Go (PAYG) offer or through Cisco Commerce as Bring Your Own License (BYOL).
2. The AWS Cloud WAN solution will be billed on a PAYG model in your AWS account.
● Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN with AWS Cloud WAN AAG
● Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN with AWS Cloud WAN overview video
● Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN with AWS Cloud WAN webinar
● Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN with AWS Cloud WAN podcast