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  • A standalone NIOS appliance to provide DNS service in your Amazon VPC.

  • A virtual cloud member tied to an on-premises (non-Cloud) NIOS Grid.

  • A Grid Master synchronizing with other AWS-hosted vNIOS Grid members in your Amazon VPC, and across VPCs or Availability Zones in different Amazon Regions.

  • A Grid Master or a member in a high availability (HA) setup starting from NIOS 9.0.4.

Infoblox vNIOS for AWS supports fully automated allocations of IP addresses and DNS record creation for business workloads. You can reduce provisioning errors, and quickly provision and de-commission resources in your public cloud. NIOS handles IP address management of AWS instances, provisioning, and managing all private IP addresses through IPAM. You can delegate different networks in your Amazon VPC to different Infoblox vNIOS for AWS Cloud Platform Appliances for management. Only with NIOS versions 8.5.2 and 8.6.2 the vNIOS for AWS instances can be deployed with both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Note that Infoblox supports network connectivity with IPv6 on IB-V4015 and IB-V4025 vNIOS appliances only. For more information about the supported vNIOS models, see Infoblox vNIOS for AWS AMI Shapes and Regions.

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Infoblox vNIOS for AWS supports extensions to the Amazon API. Grid members or the Grid Master can act as an API proxy to send AWS automation of Cloud administrators, provisioning, and management requests to the Amazon API. You can use NIOS configuration tasks or cloud API clients to send AWS API requests through any NIOS or vNIOS appliance designated as the API Proxy. For information, see Setting Up the Infoblox AWS API Proxy and Setting up a Grid Member as the API Proxy.

In this manual, you will learn how to provision and manage Infoblox vNIOS for AWS instances in the Amazon Web Services public cloud platform.

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