I am pleased to announce the availability of AWS Cloud WAN, a new network service that makes it easy to build and operate wide area networks (WAN) that connect your data centers and branch offices, as well as multiple VPCs in multiple AWS Regions.
Typically, large enterprises have resources running in different on-premises data centers, branch offices, and in the cloud. To connect these resources, network teams build and manage their own global networks using multiple networking, security, and internet services from multiple providers. They most probably use several technologies and providers to manage cloud-based networks, to connect their data centers to the AWS cloud, and for the connectivity between on-premises data centers and branch offices. All of these networks take different approaches to connectivity, security, and monitoring, resulting in an intricate patchwork of individual networks that are complicated to configure, secure, and manage.
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