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  • Run NIOS Grid members or Grid Masters in the AWS public cloud with secure connectivity and synchronization with Infoblox NIOS Grids in on-premises private networks, in a hybrid public cloud/on-premises private cloud configuration.

  • Run an entire NIOS Grid in your AWS VPC.

  • Support large-scale deployments spanning dozens of Amazon VPCs.

  • Perform vDiscovery for all resources in your Amazon VPC (requires enabling of DNS resolvers under Grid Properties in NIOS).

  • Use Infoblox vNIOS for AWS to start DHCP services for the private networks outside AWS network.

  • Use Elastic Scaling for flexible management of NIOS appliance licensing features across the entire Grid, including Cloud Management Platform (CMP) integration. Elastic Scaling enables automatic deployment of Infoblox vNIOS for AWS instances in your Amazon VPC.

    • Elastic Scaling allows you to use your pre-existing NIOS or vNIOS feature licenses for activation of NIOS features on newly launched Infoblox vNIOS for AWS EC2 instances.

  • Use Infoblox's AWS API Proxy to send configuration directions to the Amazon API.

  • DNS zone transfers to keep VPC-based Infoblox vNIOS for AWS instances in synchronization with the customer-premises NIOS Grid.

  • Infoblox vNIOS for AWS is compatible with standard operations in the AWS environment.

  • Synchronize DNS data from Amazon Route 53 to NIOS to achieve unified DNS data visualization across your on-premise networks and hybrid clouds. You can synchronize data from a single AWS account or from multiple AWS accounts belonging to the same AWS organization.

Infoblox vNIOS for AWS also provides support for advanced configurations and scripting automation, with several use cases described in this chapter:

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