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Key Features of Infoblox vNIOS for AWS

Owned by Jyothi KP
Last updated: Sept 09, 2024
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You can deploy one or more Infoblox vNIOS for AWS instances in your Amazon VPC, automatically provision them to join the NIOS Grid, and manage your Amazon VPC DNS services through Grid Manager. Utilizing Cloud Network Automation with your Amazon VPC can minimize human errors by streamlining with IPAM, improve visibility of your cloud networks, and increase the flexibility of your cloud environment.
Supported features for Infoblox vNIOS for AWS include the following:

  • 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.

  • 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 or from all AWS accounts belonging to the same AWS organization, or from selected accounts of an AWS organization starting from NIOS 9.0.4.

  • Use vDiscovery to discover and to periodically re-discover all resources in networks across multiple AWS accounts inside your Amazon cloud and synchronize data with NIOS. Synchronize data from a single or, starting from NIOS 9.0.4, from all or selected AWS accounts belonging to the same AWS organization.

  • Deploy vNIOS instances with high availability configuration starting from NIOS 9.0.4.

  • 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.

  • From NIOS 9.0.1 onwards, configure virtual Advanced DNS Protection (vADP) on vNIOS instances to enable them to detect DNS threats and prevent possible network attacks.

  • From NIOS 9.0.1 onwards, enable virtual DNS Cache Acceleration (vDCA) on vNIOS instances to configure them as high-speed DNS caching-only name servers.

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

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

  • Manually define the Grid Master, admin password, and temporary feature licenses for new Infoblox vNIOS for AWS instances using the AWS User Data feature.

  • Manually define auto-configuration of DNS service for the entire VPC by configuring the appropriate DHCP-OPTION-SET in your AWS VPC.

  • Amazon scripting automation to enable advanced AWS users to integrate API workflows into the NIOS Grid.