Cisco Solutions on AWS: Connect. Secure. Automate.
Cisco and AWS are working together to make it easier for businesses to accelerate their cloud journey. By simplifying networking across on-premises and cloud, Cisco solutions on AWS help you address common use cases in hybrid environments—including networking, cloud migration with full-stack observability, remote work, and security—to build a solid foundation for the network of the future.
Overview
Accelerate Your Cloud Journey with Cisco Solutions on AWS
Businesses want to accelerate and innovate with confidence. They are looking for trusted and experienced partners, with solutions for monitoring their hybrid IT environments that are simple to connect, secure, and automate. AWS and Cisco have created a robust framework designed to enable innovation and empower digital transformation with solutions that simplify IT across hybrid cloud environments and drive business forward.
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Cisco brings to cloud a comprehensive portfolio of software, infrastructure, integrated solutions, and services that enable organizations to design, plan, accelerate, and de-risk your cloud initiatives, securely expand your private networks, protect cloud identities, and deploy, manage & optimize applications.
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Use cases
Cisco Secure
Defend against threats and safeguard the most vital aspects of your business with security resilience. Withstand unforeseen shocks and emerge stronger with Cisco Secure.
Cisco Secure Products by Use Case
Connect users to resources with scalable VPN options
Ideal for remote worker and multi-tenant environments, Secure Firewall ASA Virtual provides scalable VPN options including remote access, site-to-site, clientless, and more. Experience Cisco’s industry leading Layer 3 and Layer 4 firewall in a virtualized form factor to protect your cloud environment.
Improvement of compliance monitoring and enhanced threat protection
Cisco Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) centralizes management and reporting functions across multiple Cisco web security appliances. It simplifies administration and planning, improves compliance monitoring, helps to enable consistent enforcement of policy, and enhances threat protection.
Correllate and prioritize threats in a single pane of glass
Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) is your administrative nerve center for managing critical Cisco network security solutions. It provides complete and unified management over firewalls, application control, intrusion prevention, malware defense, and URL filtering. Quickly and easily go from managing a firewall to controlling applications to investigating and remediating malware outbreaks. You can gain additional context with instant access to Cisco SecureX through our built-in ribbon to reduce threat dwell time.
Secure your dynamic environments consistently
Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual delivers consistent security, deep visibility, and advanced threat defense options to help you maintain business continuity amidst unpredictable threats and change. Take advantage of capabilities such as application visibility and control, Snort 3 IPS, malware defense, URL filtering, and Cisco Talos® Threat Intelligence to protect against known and unknown threats across your environments. Maintain Layer 7 policies on encrypted TLS 1.3 traffic with our encrypted visibility engine.
Centralize policy and access management
A critical component of any zero-trust strategy is securing the workplace that everyone and everything connects to. Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) enables a dynamic and automated approach to policy enforcement that simplifies the delivery of highly secure network access control. ISE empowers software-defined access and automates network segmentation within IT and OT environments.
Extend Meraki SD-WAN to AWS Secure, high-quality experience for any workload, from anywhere
Cisco Meraki is the leader in cloud controlled WiFi, routing, and security. Secure and scalable, Cisco Meraki enterprise networks simply work. Meraki's virtual MX(vMX) extends your physical MX deployment to the cloud in minutes through the same Meraki dashboard. vMX can be used as your SD-WAN and Auto VPN node to easily connect your network with your AWS deployed services. Leveraging the power of the Meraki Cloud the vMX can configure, monitor, and maintain your VPN so you don't have to.
Defend application instances as you scale
Empower your NetOps and SecOps teams to run at DevOps speed with an agile and elastic firewall built for Kubernetes environments.
Safeguard against internet-based threats
Cisco Secure Web Appliance protects your organization by automatically blocking risky sites and testing unknown sites before allowing users to click on them. Using TLS 1.3 and high-performance capabilities, Cisco Secure Web Appliance keeps your users safe
Protect users from malware by blocking threats in real-time
Cisco Umbrella DNS blocks requests to malicious domains before a connection is even established - immediately stopping threats over any port or protocol before users and devices are compromised.
Protect corporate cloud apps by establishing user and device trust
Cisco Secure by Duo ensures users and devices can be trusted every time they request access to a corporate app by verifying user identity, gaining visibility into devices and enforcing adaptive policies.
Unified threat detection across on-premises and cloud environments
Secure Cloud Analytics uses dynamic entity modeling to learn behavior and create precise alerts when questionable activity is detected.
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Cisco Data Center Networking (DCN) software brings automation and policy-driven management and control to your data center. Cisco® DCN licensing provides flexibility when adopting various software consumption models.
Cloud & Data Center Networking Products by Use Case
Migrating applications to AWS
AppDynamics enables users to migrate applications to AWS with confidence and the post migration insights to quickly prove the success of their digital transformation journey.
Connectivity Automation, Policy Translation, Segmentation and visibility for intra-cloud network
The infrastructure controller is the main architectural component of the Cisco ACI solution. It is the unified point of automation and management for the Cisco ACI fabric, policy enforcement, and health monitoring. The APIC appliance is a centralized, clustered controller that optimizes performance and unifies the operation of physical and virtual environments. The controller manages and operates a scalable multitenant Cisco ACI fabric.
A common platform for deploying Cisco Data Center applications.
Cisco Application Services Engine is a unified platform designed to run Day 2 operations applications such as Cisco Network Insights , Cisco Network Assurance Engine and Cisco ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO).
Simplified network management
Cisco Business Dashboard is a network management tool for Cisco Business switches, routers, and wireless access points. It simplifies the job of managing a business network by automating the deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of the network.
Multi-Cloud Orchestration (intra and Inter Cloud) and Operations
This simplified, centralized data center dashboard makes it easier to manage your hybrid cloud network operations.
Cloud Optimization, Planning and Migration
Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer’s (IWO) real-time decision engine for hybrid cloud environments provides visibility and resource recommendations throughout the application stack, including everything in between such as hypervisors, containers, and databases. IWO can look at application requirements across public clouds as well as on premises. This provides a unified view to continuously optimize your overall hybrid cloud environment via a single portal. IWO understands the capabilities of public cloud such as AWS’s multitude of templates, matching those templates to the application requirements. IWO automatically provides cost optimizing recommendations while not trading off application performance.
Internet of Things
Industrial IoT is an ecosystem of devices, sensors, applications, and associated networking equipment that work together to collect, monitor, and analyze data from industrial operations. Analysis of such data helps increase visibility and enhances troubleshooting and maintenance capabilities. It can also increase efficiencies, reduce costs, and improve safety and security.
Internet of Things Products by Use Case
Secure your Industrial Control Systems
Enforce industrial security policies at scale & drive network segmentation, monitor in real-time to get insights to protect your IIoT network from cyberattacks.
Cisco Networking
Keep users happy and business running smoothly with software and hardware that work best together. Automation, analytics, and security work hard for you, so you don't have to.
Cisco Networking Products by Use Case
Secure, multicloud connectivity made simple.
Bridge the WAN edge and the cloud edge with Catalyst 8000V Edge Software. Apply policies from end to end. Optimize applications to enhance user experience. This virtual edge platform delivers agility, security, and visibility for the new, multicloud world.
Cisco Catalyst 9800, Simplicity, Resiliency, Security, Intelligence
A Wi-Fi 6/6E-supported Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller fortifies your network and allows it to be deployed anywhere—including the cloud.
Securely connect to any cloud
Extend your enterprise network to public and private clouds with the CSR 1000V Series. Offer routing, security, and network management as cloud services with multi-tenancy. The series is infrastructure-agnostic and programmable across the LAN and WAN and in the cloud.
Extending SD-WAN overlay into public cloud environments
Cisco vEdge Cloud is a software router platform that supports an entire range of capabilities available on the physical vEdgerouter platforms.
Cisco DNA Spaces Connector
As technologies and requirements change, Cisco DNA subscriptions can help you and your IT team keep pace with your network's expanding demands.
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Full-stack observability provided by Cisco® solutions moves beyond domain monitoring into full-stack visibility, insights, and actions, transforming siloed data into actionable insights that provide shared context for your IT teams.
Full stack observability Products by Use Case
Migrating applications to AWS
AppDynamics enables users to migrate applications to AWS with confidence and the post migration insights to quickly prove the success of their digital transformation journey.
Cloud Optimization, Planning and Migration
Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer’s (IWO) real-time decision engine for hybrid cloud environments provides visibility and resource recommendations throughout the application stack, including everything in between such as hypervisors, containers, and databases. IWO can look at application requirements across public clouds as well as on premises. This provides a unified view to continuously optimize your overall hybrid cloud environment via a single portal. IWO understands the capabilities of public cloud such as AWS’s multitude of templates, matching those templates to the application requirements. IWO automatically provides cost optimizing recommendations while not trading off application performance.
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Today's hybrid work is about more than solving remote work challenges. It's about taking advantage of opportunities to empower your team at home, in the office, or anywhere.
Hybrid Work Products by Use Case
Extend Meraki SD-WAN to AWS Secure, high-quality experience for any workload, from anywhere
Cisco Meraki is the leader in cloud controlled WiFi, routing, and security. Secure and scalable, Cisco Meraki enterprise networks simply work. Meraki's virtual MX(vMX) extends your physical MX deployment to the cloud in minutes through the same Meraki dashboard. vMX can be used as your SD-WAN and Auto VPN node to easily connect your network with your AWS deployed services. Leveraging the power of the Meraki Cloud the vMX can configure, monitor, and maintain your VPN so you don't have to.
Connectivity Automation, Policy Translation, Segmentation and visibility for intra-cloud network
The infrastructure controller is the main architectural component of the Cisco ACI solution. It is the unified point of automation and management for the Cisco ACI fabric, policy enforcement, and health monitoring. The APIC appliance is a centralized, clustered controller that optimizes performance and unifies the operation of physical and virtual environments. The controller manages and operates a scalable multitenant Cisco ACI fabric.
Securely connect to any cloud
Extend your enterprise network to public and private clouds with the CSR 1000V Series. Offer routing, security, and network management as cloud services with multi-tenancy. The series is infrastructure-agnostic and programmable across the LAN and WAN and in the cloud.
Secure, multicloud connectivity made simple.
Bridge the WAN edge and the cloud edge with Catalyst 8000V Edge Software. Apply policies from end to end. Optimize applications to enhance user experience. This virtual edge platform delivers agility, security, and visibility for the new, multicloud world.
Multimedia Session Border Controller
Cisco Unified Border Element is a market leading Session Border Controller that runs on the Catalyst 8000V Software platform. The comprehensive feature may be used to interconnect voice traffic between enterprise and service provider SIP trunks securely and effectively.
Cisco Cloud Virtual Router
As part of Cisco's Cloud portfolio, the Cisco XRv9000 is a 64Bit Carrier Grade Virtual Router providing virtual provider edge (vPE), route reflector (vRR) and Cloud Router (vRouter) capabilities. The AMI image runs Cisco's IOS-XR technology enabling customers to deploy the same world class networking services that they are use to in their own networks but inside AWS. Cisco XRv9000 deployment inside the AWS allows to extend Converged SDN Transport architecture to support public cloud infra and cloud service availability, providing seamless Cisco experience.
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