This chapter describes how to use the Infoblox AWS API Proxy on Infoblox vNIOS for AWS virtual appliances. Infoblox supports the Amazon Web Services API through Amazon API clients and through NIOS provisioning actions. To enable this capability, you designate one or more NIOS or vNIOS appliances in the Grid as AWS API Proxies. You then configure NIOS so that all AWS API clients automatically send all Amazon API requests to the AWS API proxy.
The AWS API Proxy accepts Cloud API requests from an AWS API client on a reserved TCP port. The AWS API proxy parses the Cloud API requests into generic Amazon API requests that can be processed in the Amazon cloud. The AWS API proxy then forwards those requests to Amazon services to read, write and modify cloud network data, including IP addresses. When an Infoblox vNIOS for AWS virtual appliance acts as an AWS API Proxy, the appliance requires delegation to ensure that it can modify the objects specified in the API query. The AWS API Proxy can access objects elsewhere in the Grid for which it is authoritative in the API request.
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