You can designate at least one Cloud Platform appliance (or the Grid Master) as an API Proxy to the AWS API. You can designate an Infoblox vNIOS for AWS instance as an API Proxy.
You use Grid Manager (the NIOS GUI) to set up one or more appliances as an AWS API Proxy. The following configurations support AWS API Proxy:
- Grid Master (requires the Cloud Network Automation license);
- Grid Member (requires the Cloud Platform license).
The appliance acting as the API Proxy may be located in the AWS VPC or be an on-premises appliance.
The API Proxy accepts Cloud API requests from an AWS API client on a reserved TCP port. The proxy parses the Cloud API requests into generic Amazon API requests that can be processed in the Amazon cloud. The proxy then forwards those requests to Amazon services to read, write and modify cloud network data, including IP addresses.
You may also run an on-premises NIOS Cloud Platform appliance as the API Proxy. The Grid Master (with a Cloud Network Automation license) may also operate as the API Proxy. If you choose to have Infoblox vNIOS for AWS instance as the API Proxy, ensure that all SSH sessions for CLI sessions to the Infoblox vNIOS for AWS instance are routed through the network connection to the VPC.
For more information on the Infoblox AWS API Proxy, see Setting Up the Infoblox AWS API Proxy.