Note: You can obtain the Infoblox vNIOS for AWS AMI by going to the Community AMI page in Amazon Web Services. Use 'NIOS' or 'Infoblox' as the search term to locate the AMI. For information, see Obtaining the Infoblox vNIOS for AWS AMI.
Amazon Web Services cloud networks are called virtual private clouds (VPCs). Using Infoblox vNIOS for AWS, you can control, provision and manage IP addresses in your AWS VPCs.
Supported Amazon virtual private cloud topologies include the following: Shared Services VPCs peered to multiple business workload VPCs.
For control through Amazon's API, you designate at least one Cloud Platform appliance (or the Grid Master) as an API Proxy to the Amazon Web Services API. NIOS administrators, and AWS users that will use NIOS to manage their VPCs, must designate an on-premise NIOS appliance or an Infoblox vNIOS for AWS instance as an API Proxy. (You may also use more than one, depending on your deployment.) You can use a computer as an AWS API client to issue AWS API calls, or run scripts to automate longer sequences of AWS API calls. For related procedures, see Setting Up the Infoblox AWS API Proxy and Using Amazon Boto as an AWS CLI API Client.
You can use any of the following as an API Proxy for your Infoblox vNIOS for AWS deployment:
On-premises Grid Master
On-premises Grid member
AWS VPC-based Grid Master (Infoblox vNIOS for AWS instance)
AWS VPC-based Grid member (Infoblox vNIOS for AWS instance)
Multi-Grid Master when deployed on AWS, and MGM initiated is selected as the Master Grid communication mode, the administrator should open ports from 21195 to 21320 as outgoing Multi-Grid Master ports with no incoming traffic. In addition, port 21195 must be opened as an incoming port for sub Grid. For Information on Master Grid Communication Mode, see Multi-Grid Manager Administrator Guide.
In all cases, the instance acting as the API Proxy must have the Cloud Platform license (for a Grid Master, this is the Cloud Network Automation license).
If you already run an Infoblox Grid and want to extend that Grid to your Amazon cloud network, you can deploy one or more Infoblox vNIOS for AWS instances to join your on-premises Grid. You can use it to manage all of your cloud resources as part of IPAM management, with full DNS capabilities. This deployment type is called a hybrid, because it combines the user's public cloud (AWS) and their private network.