As part of Cisco's Cloud connect portfolio, the DNA Advantage package for Catalyst 8000V (C8000V) delivers the maximum performance available in AWS cloud for virtual networking services. Deliver high-speed secure VPN services with High Availability, strong Firewall protection, Application Visibility & Control, and more... This AMI runs Cisco IOS XE technology features and uses AWS instances with direct I/O path for higher & more consistent performance. The C8000V with full Cisco IOS-XE support enables customers to deploy the same enterprise-class networking services that they are so used to in their on-prem networks inside AWS. This AMI enables enterprise-class Routing, VPN, High-Availability, Firewall, IP SLA, VPC Interconnection, Application Visibility & Control, Performance Monitoring, Optimization. he familiar IOS XE CLI and RESTful API ensures easy deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and service orchestration.

If you are using the Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V (CSR 1000V) virtual router in autonomous mode, then you may want to use the GUI-driven migration tool to migrate those instances to Cisco Catalyst 8000V (C8000V) instance. This migration uses AWS CloudFormation template based automation to spin-up a new instance of Catalyst 8000V and copy the configuration files from the CSR 1000V instance. You can batch migrate up to ten CSR 1000V instances in one go. The migrated instances will include the enhanced "secure object storage" feature in C8000V that stores all sensitive configuration information in an encrypted file system inside the VM. See the http://cs.co/c8000v-aws-migration-tool chapter in the Catalyst 8000V Configuration Guide for AWS for more details.