Alkira's Cloud Network as-a-Service (CNaaS) platform is a cloud-native solution that enables enterprises to rapidly connect, secure, and manage workloads across AWS, on-premises, and multicloud environments. It provides a true abstraction layer, automating network provisioning and management, and eliminates manual configuration and operational complexity. Learn more.
The integration between AWS Cloud WAN and Alkira CNaaS provides control plane and data plane integration between AWS Cloud WAN edge locations and Alkira Cloud Exchange Points (CXPs). This enables seamless communication between cloud and on-premises environments, as well as multi-cloud workloads, with dynamic routing, elastic scale, and symmetric service insertion for high performance and resiliency. Read the announcement.
Alkira's primary purpose is to simplify cloud networking for enterprises by offering Network Infrastructure-as-a-Service (NIaaS). This eliminates the need for traditional hardware-dependent networking and provides a unified control plane for seamless connectivity across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. More about Alkira's mission.
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Alkira is SOC 2 and PCI-DSS compliant, ensuring high standards for security, availability, and confidentiality. The platform integrates advanced security features such as Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and next-generation firewalls, providing secure connectivity for distributed workforces and applications. Learn more about compliance.
Alkira supports integrations with AWS, Cisco SD-WAN, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet NGFW, F5, Splunk, ServiceNow, Infoblox, Aruba SD-WAN, Terraform, and the Itential Automation Platform. These integrations enable secure, scalable, and automated networking across cloud and on-premises environments. See all technology partners.
Yes, Alkira provides APIs, including billing APIs that offer real-time cloud network cost data. These APIs can be integrated with other cost management tools and dashboards to automate billing data synthesis and support ongoing cloud cost optimization. Learn more.
Alkira offers a range of technical resources, including whitepapers (e.g., On Demand Next-Generation Cloud Firewalls), solution briefs, and a dedicated wiki for in-depth technical information. Solution Briefs | Wiki
Alkira offers flexible pricing models, including consumption-based (pay-as-you-go) and commitment-based options. Pricing is determined by the quantity and size of network elements (such as Alkira Cloud Exchange Points), connectors, next-generation firewalls, and data egress. Customers can view live pricing details from the portal or via APIs. See pricing details.
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Alkira is designed for technical roles such as Network Architects, Cloud Architects, Security Architects, IT Managers/Directors, and CloudOps, as well as business leaders like VPs, CTOs, CIOs, and CISOs. The platform is best suited for mid-to-large enterprises across industries including manufacturing, healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, biotechnology, software technology, retail, media & entertainment, and aviation. See customer stories.
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Customers can implement a proof of concept in as little as 4 hours, with full production deployment typically taking about 8 weeks. Alkira's drag-and-drop interface and dedicated training platform make onboarding straightforward, even for non-technical users. Explore training resources.
Customers consistently praise Alkira for its simplicity and rapid deployment. For example, a Network Architect at a large manufacturer noted, "The IT DIY approach was going to take 6 months to be secure and redundant and all. Alkira did it for us in 3 days, and at very low cost." Matt Hoag, CTO at Koch Industries, shared, "We had gone from a mass of complexity and months of work to a dashboard that allowed us simply to draw our network and deploy it in a few hours." Read more testimonials.
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You can bring up your AWS network across cloud and on-premises environments in less than 7 minutes. Watch the demo.
Proof of concept can be implemented in as little as 4 hours, and full production deployment typically takes about 8 weeks. Alkira provides a drag-and-drop interface, dedicated training, and 24x7 monitoring, so extensive technical expertise or additional staffing is not required. Training platform.
Alkira offers a dedicated training platform with detailed guidance, demos, and resources. Customers also benefit from 24x7 monitoring, a diagnostics dashboard for troubleshooting, and dedicated support via email or support tickets. Contact support | Training resources.
Alkira provides proactive notifications for maintenance, a diagnostics dashboard for live troubleshooting, 24x7 monitoring to meet SLA commitments, and dedicated support via email or support tickets. These services ensure smooth operations and minimize downtime. Contact support.
Alkira ensures seamless maintenance and upgrades with proactive notifications, a diagnostics dashboard for visibility into network flows, and 24x7 monitoring. Customers can report issues or seek assistance at any time, ensuring minimal operational disruption. Contact support.
Alkira is SOC 2 and PCI-DSS compliant, demonstrating a commitment to securing customer data and maintaining robust operational controls. The platform also integrates advanced security features like ZTNA and next-generation firewalls. See compliance details.
Alkira integrates Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and next-generation firewalls directly into its platform, eliminating vulnerabilities in traditional VPNs and perimeter-based security models. This ensures seamless and secure access for distributed teams and applications. Learn more.
Alkira's vision is to transform enterprise connectivity by simplifying cloud networking for the AI era. Its mission is to eliminate the complexity of traditional hardware-dependent networking by providing a cloud-native solution that seamlessly connects hybrid and multi-cloud environments through a unified control plane. More about Alkira.
Alkira serves Fortune 100 enterprises, leading system integrators, and global managed service providers. Notable customers include Michaels, Koch Industries, Warner Hotels, and SITA. See more customer stories.
Industries represented in Alkira's case studies include manufacturing, retail, healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, biotechnology/life sciences, software technology, media & entertainment, and aviation. Explore case studies.
The collaboration focuses on integrating AWS Cloud WAN with Alkira's CNaaS platform, providing seamless control and data plane integration between AWS Cloud WAN edge locations and Alkira Cloud Exchange Points. This enables optimized throughput, latency, and resiliency for multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Read more.
Establishing the Control Plane for Cloud Connectivity
Read the AnnouncementThe world is changing and has been for quite a few years now. Fueled by the digital transformation, enterprises are looking toward the cloud to meet their ambitions for accelerated application deployment and reduced (or at times eliminated) reliance on traditional on-premises data centers where physical hardware sprawl causes significant operational churn and heavy financial investments.
Public cloud provides elastically scalable infrastructure ubiquitously available around the globe coupled with convenient as-a-service consumption models. Cloud has become a competitive differentiator allowing forward-looking enterprises to take advantage of cloud agility to rapidly launch new software solutions to market at record speeds.
Alkira was founded back in 2018 with a mission to solve the most critical networking and security challenges of this cloud era. Its groundbreaking solution has for the very first time in the industry extended cloud agility to the infrastructure layer offering enterprise-grade feature richness at the speed of cloud and with cloud-like as-a-service consumption models. But it does not end there. Not only does Alkira offer enterprises a consistent and dramatically simplified experience of designing, deploying, and managing networking and security capabilities, but it does so by leveraging the underlying public cloud infrastructure, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform, to power Alkira’s cloud network infrastructure as-a-service (CNaaS) platform.
Today, we are proud to collaborate with AWS in launching the AWS Cloud WAN solution. AWS’s continuous innovation in offering comprehensive solutions to enterprise networking needs connecting AWS workloads across single-region and multi-region deployments works in perfect harmony with Alkira’s CNaaS platform.
The joint solution provides control plane and data plane integration between the AWS Cloud WAN edge locations and the Alkira Cloud Exchange Points (Alkira CXPs) around the world. Alkira Cloud Exchange Points are globally distributed virtual points of presence with elastic scale, advanced networking controls, and symmetric service insertion capabilities. The cloud-native virtual cross-connects between the AWS Cloud WAN edge locations and the Alkira CXPs are optimally provisioned for a very high throughput, lowest latency, and high resiliency between the two environments. Both environments make use of BGP dynamic routing protocol to bi-directionally exchange reachability information and allow cloud and on-premises resources connected to either of the environments to communicate with each other.
Alkira Cloud Services Exchange seamlessly connects enterprise multi-cloud environments. AWS cloud workloads connected to the Global WAN edge locations can communicate with any on-premises locations and multi-cloud workloads connected to the Alkira Cloud Services Exchange. The automated nature of cross-connect provisioning greatly simplifies extension of AWS Cloud WAN to accommodate multi-cloud environments.
Alkira’s intelligent service insertion capabilities allow joint customers to insert network and security services, for example the next-generation firewalls of choice, from the Alkira network services marketplace into the application traffic between the AWS Cloud WAN and Alkira Cloud Services Exchange environments. Such deployments are done in a consistent manner across a single cloud and multi-cloud environments with a uniform set of capabilities.
In case of the next-generation firewalls, they are automatically provisioned through the Alkira portal into the Alkira Cloud Exchange Points (Alkira CXPs) where the virtual cross-connect between the two environments occurs. Not only does Alkira’s solution provide simplified and consistent design, deployment, and integration of the network services, but it also offers a full life-cycle management, freeing the IT teams from the tedious manual processes.
Alkira intent-based policies allow administrators the flexibility to select the application traffic to be symmetrically steered toward the next-generation firewalls. As the need for application traffic between the two environments varies over time, Alkira’s solution will auto-scale up and down the firewall capacity based on a real-time demand.
AWS and Alkira continue to innovate and collaborate bringing new joint solutions to market and to provide an adequate response to the most pressing enterprise needs in the cloud era.
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