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). With this offering, Cisco is extending the capabilities of the Cisco Application Services Engine to the AWS cloud. Running natively on AWS infrastructure the Cisco Application Services Engine is now able to run the Cisco ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO) in the cloud allowing customers to run a cloud-only Cisco ACI infrastructure. The Cisco Application Services Engine is deployed as a 3 -node EC2 cluster via a Cloud Formation template. The Cisco Application Services Engine will also run the various Day 2 Operations applications such as Cisco Network Insights and Cisco Network Assurance Engine in the future.