#1 most frequent
United States of America
77.1%121 installations of 157
What is Aviatrix?
Aviatrix aims to bring multi-cloud networking, security, and operational visibility capabilities that enterprises customers require. Aviatrix software leverages public cloud provider APIs to interact with and directly program native cloud networking constructs, abstracting the unique complexities of each cloud to form one network data plane, and adds advanced networking and security features.
Categories & Use Cases
Who Buys & Uses Aviatrix
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
4.5%7 installations of 157
#3 most frequent
India
3.2%5 installations of 157
Using Aviatrix in Public Clouds
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Use the product to route traffic across different AWS VPC, as well as with external network outside of AWS using site to site VPN connection.
Direct east-west VPC and site to site VPN traffic to go through a 3rd party NGFW inspection.
Direct east-west VPC and site to site VPN traffic to go through a 3rd party NGFW inspection.
Pros
- With a few very easy steps to establish routing between AWS VPC
- Easy procedures to establish site to site VPN connection with external parties.
- Provide network access control on routing traffic using its own build-in firewall inspection or directing traffic to 3rd party NGFW for full stack inspection.
Cons
- It lacks of ways to admin-down an established site to site VPN connections is one of the short coming.
- In network traffic inspection, it lacks options to customize the IPS function is another short coming.
- While the product allows lots of email alerting options, it lacks ways to customize the alerting email messages and ways to suppress alert flooding.
Return on Investment
- Reduce labor hours for network admin to manage public clound network routing policy.
- Build-in security features may be good enough for small/medium size companies, and thus saving money from full funciton NGFW solution.
- The Cost-IQ feature enable one to capture traffic volume of each VPC. This provides one way for the enterprise to perform cost charge back to various business funcitons at the VPC level.
Usability
Other Software Used
Cisco Firepower 4100 Series, Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series, SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
Aviatrix Cloud Network Platform - Network as Code
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Aviatrix Cloud Network Platform has allowed us to basically transform all of our networking into code, which always leads to less human error and more repeatability and consistency in deployments. We use it in environments from dev to prod. And so far it has been reliable as a networking tool.
Pros
- Network as code.
- Cloud native.
- Fast VPN tunnels.
Cons
- Updates take too much manual work.
Most Important Features
- Network as code.
- Cloud native.
- Egress control.
Return on Investment
- Consistency and repeatability in deployments.
- Less downtime.
- Another layer in DEP.