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As the cloud networking experts, Aviatrix wants to elevate the work of cloud networking heroes who labor to keep networks secure, effective, and performant. We’re proud to highlight people who have taught themselves the necessary skills, designed and managed successful networks, and have the expertise to share, including several who joined Aviatrix in New York at the NASDAQ tower. Our second hero spotlight is on Adam Stipkovits, Multicloud Network Architect. See our first hero spotlight on Toby Foss here.  The Beginning: A Rogue DHCP  Adam’s networking journey began with intense curiosity: he was fascinated by computers and played with his father’s whenever he got the chance. When he became a teenager, he got his own computer and started playing around with the programming language BASIC.  At 16, he had a lightbulb moment:  “One of my parent’s friends had a small IT company and he invited me to their office for a day,” he said. “He showed me a simple router which we connected to the co

We’re so glad you’re here! At Aviatrix, we’re passionate about empowering the future generation of cloud networking heroes. We created this virtual space as a channel for fellow heroes to connect, collaborate, cocreate, and have fun. You’ll find likeminded peers of all shapes and sizes – with many backgrounds, across different industries, from all around the world. Who better to learn from and grow with than those who share your passion?We want our journey together to be meaningful, so we put this guide together to help you get familiar with The Cloud Network, a network of cloud networking experts.Have a look aroundYou can navigate through our community by using the main navigation bar. Browse resources, connect with peers to build your network, and learn about the different programs this community offers. From the homepage, you will find:Getting Started – New here? Learn how to get started in the Community Technical Forum – Start discussions, ask questions, get answers General Backbo

Every day, people visit Reddit and Stack Overflow seeking expert advice about cloud networking and security. We search through those posts and gather a list of discussions and questions that you – the experts – might find interesting or solvable. Some are career guidance, which is where your experience and advice matters.   If you’re new to Reddit or Stack Overflow, some tips are below. And if you do respond to any of these threads, share the link to your responses back to this post so others in the community can follow you.  Below are the most recent inquiries. Thank you for helping the cloud networking community!  RedditCloud Solution Architect career path; Seeking advice from seasoned professionals. Starting a career in Cloud Computing Using Azure; Seeking advice on how to start a career and get experience in cloud computing after completing the certs. Not sure what to do next, but I'm burned out on being a network engineer; I don't know what direction I should be heading in: stay i

will be there in future a feature for  dns management to domain registrar and domain hosting for multi cloud without need to deploy dns  at each cloud service provider dashboard and using UI or terraform provider with controller and have visibility and troubleshooting with copilot? 

For any that weren’t fully aware of the insanely critical role that technology plays in every aspect of our lives, the global pandemic was a phenomenal driver of awareness. It’s hard to imagine how dramatically our lives would have been interrupted without the amazing array of technology that is woven throughout our society. Every ounce of that miraculous technology is dependent upon and powered by networking. Without even thinking about it, most people expect constant high-performance connectivity across the globe that guarantees your wire transfers execute, your mobile orders arrive at your doorstep, your ride hail service responds in milliseconds, all wrapped with robust security that keeps data safe. But keeping a network healthy and secure, especially for an enterprise, is no easy feat. It takes untold hours of planning, strategizing, monitoring, visualizing, tracing, adjusting, and troubleshooting. Your company’s networking and DevOps teams work in the shadows to keep the busines

The weather is getting cooler which means one thing… it’s back to school time! Even if you aren’t heading back to “school” this fall, there is always an opportunity to gain new skills or techniques as you advance in your career.  Damon Garn, Owner of Cogspinner Coaction, recently covered his top 10 study tips for adult learners looking to elevate their knowledge. Garn’s tips include things like defining your goals at the outset, choosing resources wisely, developing new habits that align with the time you’re most productive, and taking breaks regularly.  Check out the article on TechTarget for full details. Do you have any favorite study tips? Share them below!  And if you’re looking to master new skills and advance your cloud networking career, look no further than the Aviatrix Certified Engineer (ACE) Program. The foundational training, ACE Associate, is free with code backtoschool. Explore the history of networking and learn cloud networking essentials for AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI.More

Hi all,I’ve been running Aviatrix in my multicloud environment for a bit now and recently started facing some frustrating issues with API integration. Specifically, some of the API endpoints are either not returning the expected data or are significantly delayed. I’ve gone through the documentation and other resources/articles https://docs.aviatrix.com/previous/documentation/latest/firewall-and-security/paloalto-api-setup.html Power Apps Tutorial and double-checked my configurations, but the problem persists.Has anyone else faced similar issues with API integrations? I’m curious if this is something related to how Aviatrix handles certain API calls or if I’m missing something on my end. Any troubleshooting tips, best practices, or even just pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!Looking forward to your insights. Thanks!

Hi everyone! If you are interested or you know someone who would be interested in being a guest speaker on Altitude, a cloud networking and network security podcast by Aviatrix, please comment below or email me at bmullaney@aviatrix.com, and we can see if it is a good fit! This is a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate your thought leadership and build your personal brand. Check out the show here:https://aviatrix.com/altitude/ Topics discussed in past episodes: hot topic industry trends, business insights, technology deep dives, cloud networking and connectivity, security, privacy, zero trust, AI, automation, company culture and work ethic, cloud career and skilling, platform engineeringAudience: IT practitioners, managers of technical teams (directors, executives), individuals interested in cloud 

Every day, people visit Reddit and Stack Overflow seeking expert advice about cloud networking and security. We search through those posts and gather a list of discussions and questions that you – the experts – might find interesting or solvable. Some are career guidance, which is where your experience and advice matters.   If you’re new to Reddit or Stack Overflow, some tips are below. And if you do respond to any of these threads, share the link to your responses back to this post so others in the community can follow you.  Below are the most recent inquiries. Thank you for helping the cloud networking community!  Reddit4 VPN tunnels with BGP and ECMP A technical/architectural question for you my fellow Palo Alto users, I configured a simple S2S VPN between my firewall on-premises and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and I enabled BGP as routing protocol. As many cloud providers, OCI provides two tunnels (with different peer IPs) for redundancy. My VPN is terminated from my main ISP

Hello everyone,I am excited to join the Aviatrix community I have been exploring Aviatrix for a while now and i want to diving deeper and connecting with fellow enthusiasts; If you have any recommendations or tips for getting the most out of Aviatrix, I did love to hear them.  As a new member in this forum & want to share and gain some knowledge; I want to create my own discussion to resolve my query & gain some knowledge though I have taken part in various discussion which is definitely helped me a lot.😃 

Every day, people visit Reddit and Stack Overflow seeking expert advice about cloud networking and security. We search through those posts and gather a list of discussions and questions that you – the experts – might find interesting or solvable. Some are career guidance, which is where your experience and advice matters. If you’re new to Reddit or Stack Overflow, some tips are below. And if you do respond to any of these threads, share the link to your responses back to this post so others in the community can follow you.Below are the most recent inquiries. Thank you for helping the cloud networking community! RedditIs a CISCO IT Essentials certification worth the cost? What career should I go into if I don’t like coding that much? Navigating a stalled IT career in my 40s. Seeking advice from the UK. Starting my first IT role  Modern network architectures. seeking advice. HQ will be disbanded, a few servers to the Cloud. Is this the right approach Databricks deployed within Vnet. Seek

AI continued to make its mark on the cloud networking industry this month, with AI applications driving cloud spending and “making networking exciting” once again.  This month’s “must-reads” take on those trends with the real-world context and tips that will help you make good decisions in the planning months ahead. If you’re looking to understand the impact and role AI will play in your business, look no further. There’s something to learn for everyone! CIO DiveAI consumption to drive enterprise cloud spending spreeAccording to a new benchmarking report from IDC, the global cloud services market is expected to surpass $800 billion this year and double in size by 2028. This increase is driven largely by enterprise consumption and rapid advancement of AI technologies, according to IDC data and analytics research manager Andrea Minonne. The latest from CIO Dive underscores that AI has already had an impact on the broader cloud market, reshaping enterprise consumption patterns and driving

Hi,  I have a questions re: clarification of the below statement: "This tool is packaged as a container image that could run locally on the Windows/Linux/MACOS laptop/server/VM or EC2 instances. The container code is available here" If the container image can run locally on a PC/Server does this mean there is no requiremnet to spin up the AWS resources? I'm trying to understand: 1  If the Sandbox tool need  both AWS and Docker? 2  Can the Sandbox tool only use AWS? 3  If Sandbox tool need both AWS and Docker, what does it use Docker for? Jeff

I am being asked to add some 3rd party monitoring, logging, and security tools to aviatrix.  Is this allowed?  I didn't know how much of an appliance it was and if it would affect its operations.  Any advice? 

Every day, people visit Reddit and Stack Overflow seeking expert advice about cloud networking and security. We search through those posts and gather a list of discussions and questions that you – the experts – might find interesting or solvable. Some are career guidance, which is where your experience and advice matters.  If you’re new to Reddit or Stack Overflow, some tips are below. And if you do respond to any of these threads, share the link to your responses back to this post so others in the community can follow you! Below are the most recent inquiries. Thank you for helping the cloud networking community. RedditWhich IT career paths have better job prospects than cybersecurity? Career switch within IT: developer; Interested innetworking, infrastructure, cyber security, data analyst, etc. Talked with recruiters, but they say my interest field is too broad, I need to pick something and focus on one. Any advice? Public IP’s on Private Service Edge Where do you host your SaaS? Work

Every day, people visit Reddit and Stack Overflow seeking expert advice about cloud networking and security. We search through those posts and gather a list of discussions and questions that you – the experts – might find interesting or solvable. Some are career guidance, which is where your experience and advice matters. If you’re new to Reddit or Stack Overflow, some tips are below. And if you do respond to any of these threads, share the link to your responses back to this post so others in the community can follow you.Below are the most recent inquiries. Thank you for helping the cloud networking community! Reddit: Generating an IAM Roles Last Activity Report: AWS Console vs. Lambda Scripting? How can I optimize our setup? We are on a microservice architecture on a shared, multi-tenant RDS.   Google Cloud Functions, Server Not Working Properly During Testing Are CCSP + CISM + AWS/Azure Architect and Security Engineer Certs Enough??? How do you design cloud infrastructure in data pr

Hello Aviatrix Community,I am considering adopting Aviatrix for our multi cloud networking strategy. Can anyone share their experiences with Aviatrix in terms of performance, security and ease of management ??: Specifically, I am interested in ::-Performance :- How does Aviatrix enhance network performance across different cloud providers? Security :- What security features stand out? How does Aviatrix handle encryption and compliance? Management :- Is the platform user-friendly? How does it simplify multi-cloud network management?We aim to streamline our operations and ensure robust security across Azure, GCP and AWS. Insights on setup, scalability and any challenges faced would be greatly appreciated... Looking forward to your expert advice!Thank you!

Hello Aviatrix Community,I am considering adopting Aviatrix for our multi cloud networking strategy. Can anyone share their experiences with Aviatrix in terms of performance, security and ease of management ??: Specifically, I am interested in ::-Performance :- How does Aviatrix enhance network performance across different cloud providers? Security :- What security features stand out? How does Aviatrix handle encryption and compliance? Management :- Is the platform user-friendly? How does it simplify multi-cloud network management?We aim to streamline our operations and ensure robust security across Azure, GCP and AWS. Insights on setup, scalability and any challenges faced would be greatly appreciated... Looking forward to your expert advice!Thank you!

Every day, people visit Reddit and Stack Overflow seeking expert advice about cloud networking and security. We search through those posts and gather a list of discussions and questions that you – the experts – might find interesting or solvable. Some are career guidance, which is where your experience and advice matters.If you’re new to Reddit or Stack Overflow, some tips are below. And if you do respond to any of these threads, share the link to your responses back to this post so others in the community can follow you!Below are the most recent inquiries.Thank you and have a great day/evening depending on where you are in the world!  RedditAny good guide for step by step migration of hybrid to full cloud? New to AWS - Looking to gain hands-on experience that an employer would value AKS - API Server VNet integration preview feedback Can I change my specialization in BCA from IoT to cloud computing or cyber security? Where to take my career; Working in it for slightly more than 4 years

Hi all: Currently we are creating the smart group in our environment. I would like to know about how smart group distributed to the gateway. If we create a rule with smart group with specific vpc via copilot, what will be in the gateway. will it create all gateways or only on create on specific gateway by copilot ?

Every day, people visit Reddit and Stack Overflow seeking expert advice about cloud networking and security. We search through those posts and gather a list of discussions and questions that you – the experts – might find interesting or solvable. Some are career guidance, which is where your experience and advice matters. If you’re new to Reddit or Stack Overflow, some tips are below. And if you do respond to any of these threads, share the link to your responses back to this post so others in the community can follow you.Below are the most recent inquiries. Thank you for helping the cloud networking community! Reddit: In your career involving AWS which service did you find you use and needed to get to know the most? Migrate Data from Azure SQL Database to new subscription Google Cloud armor WAF rules related question Whats the hype with FwAAS or firewall as a service? Examples of AWS Config Rules written in Guard? Creating Private NAT Gateways? Seeking Advice on Cloud Engineering

1.will be using   deattached  VGW  that acting as hub with direct connect and propagate route to transit gateway and overlay it with high encryption performance with on premise through Equinix co-location for HA and resiliency?2.similar step with azure route server to inject route to transit gateway and overlay it with high encryption performance with on premise through Equinix co-location for HA and resiliency?following lab design  attachment.

  with Equinix integrate with aviatrix  :   1.can be deploy aviatrix controller and copilot in co-location Data Centre belong to Equinix? 2.can be deploy aviatrix gateways as spoke gateway or transit gateway following Multi cloud network architecture with repeated architecture design similar to each cloud service provider(csp)?can he deploy aviatrix transit gateway in Equinix so other spoke traffic flow come from other cloud service provider(csp) associate with it and be as hub traffic between CSP and on promise?  for aviatrix security edge will   be consider it as spoke or transit gateway and which use cases can be as spoke or transit gateway?

We need to send Aviatrix Alerts to ServiceNow tool. I found, CoPilot supports webhook alerts. Webhooks allow users to send notifications to third-party automation systems such as Slack. But we didn’t found reference of ServiceNow.