Enterprises continue to shift their workloads to cloud-based environments. This transition often leads to hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, i.e. a complex blend of on-premises data centers and multiple cloud providers. While this approach offers flexibility and scalability, it presents networking challenges.

One challenge is to ensure smooth, secure and high-performance connectivity between these environments. To do that, organizations must carefully balance cost, agility and regulatory compliance when designing their cloud networks. This delicate balancing act is particularly challenging, however, when addressing two critical use cases: secure cloud egress and secure hybrid-cloud connectivity.

Secure cloud egress involves controlling and optimizing traffic as it exits the cloud environment. This is key for maintaining security, cost-efficiency and compliance. Secure hybrid-cloud connectivity, on the other hand, focuses on establishing reliable and secure connections between on-premises data centers and various cloud platforms. This connectivity is essential for data synchronization, application migration and disaster recovery.

Aviatrix's new software release and enhancements are designed to address these challenges — simplifying network architecture and improving security while reducing complexity and cost.

Aviatrix is a cloud network security company on a mission to simplify cloud networking so companies stay agile. Their cloud networking platform creates the visibility, security and control needed to adapt with ease and move ahead at speed.

The recently released features and functionality are designed to fill critical cloud network security gaps in today's cloud environments. Aviatrix’s latest software release and introduction of new features (including the Hybrid Cloud Transit and Distributed Cloud Firewall integration with enhanced threat intelligence capabilities) equip enterprises to secure their cloud egress and hybrid-cloud connectivity, areas that have long posed challenges for cloud-first organizations.

Aviatrix's Hybrid Cloud Transit extends the company's secure cloud networking fabric to major data centers and mid-mile providers, such as Equinix (News - Alert) and Megaport. Enterprises are now able to use Aviatrix's advanced networking capabilities, including encryption, visibility, and resilience, beyond the traditional hyperscalers.

These capabilities integrated into the mid-mile infrastructure allow Aviatrix to simplify global hybrid cloud connectivity. This allows organizations to build flexible, secure and scalable network backbones without relying on complex legacy networking appliances.

Aviatrix also enhanced its Distributed Cloud Firewall, or DCF, with next-generation threat intelligence.

ThreatIQ and GeoBlocking are fully integrated with DCF for advanced threat protection. This integration enables dynamic, real-time security measures based on the latest threat data, offering more granular control over security policies.

Additionally, DCF now supports enhanced logging capabilities, which facilitates seamless integration with enterprise SIEM systems. This integration better equips organizations to incorporate cloud security into their threat-hunting and forensic workflows.

“With our latest enhancements, we're delivering not just advanced threat intelligence but extensions to our secure, high-performance hybrid cloud connectivity to meet the demands of modern enterprises,” said Anirban Sengupta, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering at Aviatrix. “Our goal is to provide enterprises a portfolio of comprehensive point solutions that simplifies cloud networking while closing critical security gaps. These two enhancements make adopting Aviatrix easier, lowering the cost, and delivering quick ROI to a pressing need."

The latest Aviatrix software release, including the new Hybrid Cloud Transit and Distributed Cloud Firewall enhancements, is available now.