Overview
Bring Your Own License (BYOL) for C8000v Transit VPC with Transit Gateway solution of the Cisco Catalyst 8000v delivers maximum performance for virtual enterprise-class networking services in the AWS cloud. The C8000v transit VPC serves as a global network transit center for connecting geographically dispersed VPCs and remote networks.
A C8000v pair is deployed in Transit VPC with VPN attachment to Transit Gateway (TGW) to provide VPN connectivity to various on-premise branch sites with greater control and functionality (QoS, Segmentation, encryption between the Transit VPC and branch sites, etc.). TGW is a regional network transit hub service provided by AWS to interconnect your VPCs in the same region in AWS cloud.
This solution uses lambda functions to first creates a Transit VPC and orchestrates two C8000v in this Transit VPC. Next it orchestrates a transit gateway, creates VPN connections with the C8000v and VPN attachment between C8000v and the transit gateway. The function then saves the VPN connection information to Amazon S3 bucket.
To activate this AMI, please obtain a license from Cisco with the following: (1) Tech Package: DNA Essentials or Advantage (2) For AWS GovCloud region, please contact ask-csr-aws-pm@cisco.com to obtain instructions on how to find C8000v.
Highlights
- Enterprise-class VPN in AWS that's faster, cheaper, and more scalable than other VPN solutions. Familiar IOS-XE based VPN supports the same commands, tools, and logs as Cisco ISR and ASR platforms.
- More secure, reliable, and cost effective than previous VPN solutions. Feature-rich: IPSec, DMVPN, FlexVPN, GETVPN, EZVPN, SSL VPN, Zone-Based Firewall, and more
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The Catalyst 8000V BYOL AMI utilizes licenses purchased directly from Cisco or Cisco partners. Please contact your Cisco sales team or partner for refund information.
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Transit Network VPC with C8000v + Transit Gateway
The C8000v transit VPC serves as a global network transit center for connecting geographically dispersed VPCs and remote networks.
A C8000v pair is deployed in Transit VPC with VPN attachment to Transit Gateway (TGW) to provide VPN connectivity to various on-premise branch sites with greater control and functionality (QoS, Segmentation, encryption between the Transit VPC and branch sites, etc.). TGW is a regional network transit hub service provided by AWS to interconnect your VPCs in the same region in AWS cloud.
CloudFormation Template (CFT)
AWS CloudFormation templates are JSON or YAML-formatted text files that simplify provisioning and management on AWS. The templates describe the service or application architecture you want to deploy, and AWS CloudFormation uses those templates to provision and configure the required services (such as Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon RDS DB instances). The deployed application and associated resources are called a "stack."
Version release notes
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/C8000V/Release-Notes/c8000v-releasenotes-17-6.html
Supported instance types: t3.medium c5.large c5.xlarge c5.2xlarge c5.4xlarge c5.9xlarge c5n.large c5n.xlarge c5n.2xlarge c5n.9xlarge
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"Bring Your Own License (BYOL) for C8000v Transit VPC with Transit Gateway solution of the Cisco Catalyst 8000v delivers maximum performance for virtual enterprise-class networking services in the AWS cloud. The C8000v transit VPC serves as a global network transit center for connecting geographically dispersed VPCs and remote networks.
A C8000v pair is deployed in Transit VPC with VPN attachment to Transit Gateway (TGW) to provide VPN connectivity to various on-premise branch sites with greater control and functionality (QoS, Segmentation, encryption between the Transit VPC and branch sites, etc.). TGW is a regional network transit hub service provided by AWS to interconnect your VPCs in the same region in AWS cloud.
This solution uses lambda functions to first creates a Transit VPC and orchestrates two C8000v in this Transit VPC. Next it orchestrates a transit gateway, creates VPN connections with the C8000v and VPN attachment between C8000v and the transit gateway. The function then saves the VPN connection information to Amazon S3 bucket.
To activate this AMI, please obtain a license from Cisco with the following: (1) Tech Package: DNA Essentials or Advantage (2) For AWS GovCloud region, please contact ask-csr-aws-pm@cisco.com to obtain instructions on how to find C8000v."
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Cisco TAC supports BYOL AMI customers only after a license is purchased from Cisco or a reseller. Community support is available during 60-day demo: https://supportforums.cisco.com/t5/cisco-cloud-service-router-csr/bd-p/12147456-csr-for-amazon . For questions or access to the GovCloud region, contact ask-csr-aws-pm@cisco.com tac@cisco.com
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