Aviatrix

The oil and gas enterprise was already leveraging the multi-cloud to enhance the analytics of petabytes of critical data. However, the increasingly complex multi-cloud network architecture was compromising the security and visibility of the organization’s applications and workloads. The enterprise realized that the need for a simplified, comprehensive view of its network infrastructure was vital to creating efficiencies that could help save millions of dollars. The enterprise faced challenges with costly and insecure cloud native architecture, combined with high use of IoT devices and established SD-WAN network, which limited the enterprise’s scalability and performance while increasing network complexity. The implementation of Next-Gen Firewall (NGFW) on multi-cloud network was complex and cost prohibitive. The enterprise also lacked a Role-Based Granular Access Control (RBAC) for admins and needed advanced cloud visibility and troubleshooting tools to investigate network health, detect cyberattacks, and provide management records and evidential data that highlight environment change activity.

Epsilon, a global marketing company, helps Fortune 500 companies drive growth through data-driven marketing solutions and is a leader in data privacy and security. With platforms connected across Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and on-premises resources, Epsilon recognized the need to efficiently establish connectivity and continue to secure data-in-motion between platforms. To solve for this, Epsilon chose to build an Amazon Web Services (AWS) global transit architecture. To implement this architecture, Epsilon decided to overhaul its cloud networking strategy and start from scratch. They began by prioritizing business requirements, specific technical challenges, and implementing a solution that could scale as fast as its AWS resources.

The financial services institution, with assets valued at over $34 billion, was seeking to improve customer experience by addressing its growing security, visibility, and compliance needs while expanding into a multi-cloud environment. However, the enterprise soon became increasingly dependent on the native constructs provided by Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) that limited the visibility, security, and control over the company’s multi-cloud network. Changes in the business environment, further accelerated due to COVID-19, required even more resilience and risk management. These factors could have become costly to the enterprise, but with Aviatrix leading them into the multi-cloud, they were able to mitigate risks for their customers and their organization.

The SaaS provider was faced with the challenge of meeting the demand for multi-cloud service delivery, which caused an exponential rise in complexity to utilize native cloud constructs in an additional cloud. This resulted in re-training of staff, and business requirements that further reduced the agility of the SaaS provider’s cloud IT teams. On-boarding just a single additional CSP resulted in inconsistent network architecture and created inefficient operations as much of the existing automation needed to be refactored for the new CSP environment. The SaaS provider wanted to create a service delivery infrastructure strategy that would provide the best possible end customer experience with the simplest and most consistent infrastructure operations, scale to their growth targets while ensuring security, financial, and reputational risks were minimized.