AWS Cloud WAN Documentation

AWS Cloud WAN makes it easier to build and operate wide area networks that connect your data centers and branch offices, as well as your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). With Cloud WAN, you connect to AWS through your choice of local network providers, then use a central dashboard and network policies to create a unified network that connects your locations and network types. Cloud WAN generates an overview of your on-premises and AWS networks to help you visualize the health, security, and performance of your network.

Cloud WAN provides a central dashboard to connect and manage your branch offices, data centers, VPN connections, and Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN), as well as your Amazon VPCs and AWS Transit Gateways. The Cloud WAN dashboard helps you track network traffic and events and view the health of your network in one place.

When using Cloud WAN, you define access controls and traffic routing in a central network policy document. 

You can use policies in Cloud WAN to segment your network traffic across the AWS Regions and on-premises locations you add to your network.

Cloud WAN attaches new VPCs and network connections to your network once you have tagged attachments and defined network policies that map attachments with a certain tag to a specific network segment.

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