Aruba virtual gateways are deployed in public cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services virtual private cloud (AWS VPC). These gateways serve as a virtual instance of a headend gateway, and enable seamless and secure connectivity for all branch and data center locations connecting to public clouds. Virtual gateways support public Internet and private connections such as Direct Connect. Aruba SD-WAN greatly enhances the use of public clouds by making it easy to connect to virtual private cloud instances. This optimizes the networking of the hosted workloads by providing complete lifecycle management and orchestration of connectivity policies.