The rapid shift to multicloud architectures created an unprecedented security challenge: cross-cloud visibility. While organizations invest heavily in perimeter defenses (firewalls) and identity management, a critical blind spot remains: visibility into what's happening inside their cloud environments (specifically cloud-based workloads).
Today, Aviatrix is addressing this gap head-on with the launch of Aviatrix Workload Threat Visibility, which provides unified, real-time visibility into outbound workload connections across all major cloud providers. These workloads include VMs, containers, and serverless functions that initiate outbound connections—such as API calls, software updates, or external service interactions—across public and private cloud environments.
The Multicloud Visibility Crisis
Every successful breach ultimately involves outbound movement. Attackers break in and establish command-and-control channels, exfiltrate sensitive data, and move laterally through environments using egress traffic as their highway.
Organizations need consistent network visibility across their clouds. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform each expose network activity data differently and within operational silos, forcing security teams to juggle multiple dashboards, learn different interfaces, and somehow piece together a coherent picture of what's happening across their entire cloud estate. This lack of unified multicloud visibility creates dangerous gaps that sophisticated attackers are quick to exploit.
Consider the compliance implications alone. Regulatory frameworks like DORA, NIS2, and PCI DSS 4.0 don't accept "per-cloud" security answers. When auditors and board members ask for evidence of zero trust enforcement, they expect a unified view that demonstrates consistent policy application across all environments. Most organizations simply can't provide that today.
Why Traditional Approaches Fall Short
Cloud security visibility has several common limitations:
First, most zero trust implementations stop at the perimeter, focusing heavily on identity and device posture while losing sight of workload-to-internet traffic once users are authenticated. This creates a false sense of security—you may know who's accessing your environment, but you have no idea what those authenticated users or compromised workloads are doing with your data.
Second, native cloud NAT gateways compound the problem. While cloud providers charge premium rates for NAT processing (often several cents per gigabyte), they provide minimal security context about where traffic is actually going. You're paying for the privilege of being blind to the geographic destinations, domain relationships, and threat intelligence that could help you detect malicious activity before it causes damage.
Third, traditional flow logs and SIEM approaches create operational overhead without delivering actionable intelligence. Security teams find themselves drowning in IP addresses and port numbers while lacking the domain-level, geography-aware context they need to make informed decisions about risk.
Introducing Aviatrix Workload Threat Visibility
Aviatrix Workload Threat Visibility changes the game by providing security teams with consistent, cross-cloud visibility into where workloads connect and whether those connections represent legitimate business activity, compliance violations, or active threats.
The solution works by observing outbound activity through the Aviatrix NAT Gateway layer across AWS, Azure, and other cloud environments. Instead of simply processing network address translation like traditional NAT gateways, Aviatrix enriches every connection with domain intelligence, geographic context, and real-time threat intelligence. This means security teams can finally see not just that traffic is leaving their environment, but exactly where it's going and what risks those destinations might pose.
By performing network address translation within Aviatrix's distributed data plane, customers can replace expensive native cloud NAT gateways while gaining unprecedented visibility into their outbound traffic patterns. It's operational simplification and security enhancement rolled into one.
Real-World Impact for Security Teams
With this assessment, every team benefits:
Cloud security architects gain a unified view for monitoring egress activity across their entire multicloud estate, eliminating the need to context-switch between provider-specific tools and dashboards. They can quickly identify when workloads are connecting to suspicious domains, accessing resources in prohibited geographic regions, or exhibiting patterns consistent with data exfiltration attempts.
SecOps teams finally get the runtime proof they need to validate that their Zero trust policies are working as intended. Rather than hoping that security controls are effective, they can demonstrate with concrete evidence that data sovereignty requirements are being met, that workloads aren't communicating with known malicious infrastructure, and that segmentation policies are preventing unauthorized lateral movement.
Platform Engineering teams benefit from dramatic operational simplification. Instead of managing separate NAT gateways, logging configurations, and monitoring tools for each cloud provider, they get a unified architecture that delivers better security outcomes at lower total cost. The solution deploys inline using existing network paths, requiring no agents, no packet mirroring infrastructure, and no disruptive architectural changes.
Beyond Visibility: Building the Foundation for Zero Trust Enforcement
While immediate visibility is the primary value proposition, Aviatrix Workload Threat Visibility is designed as the foundation for comprehensive runtime protection. The same distributed architecture that enables cross-cloud visibility also supports policy enforcement, creating a clear path for organizations to evolve from detection to prevention.
This forward-looking approach means that security investments made today will continue delivering value as organizations mature their Zero trust implementations. Rather than requiring separate tools for visibility and enforcement, Aviatrix provides a unified platform that can grow with organizational security requirements.
Looking Forward: The Future of Multicloud Security
As enterprises continue expanding their cloud footprints and regulatory requirements become more stringent, the need for unified security visibility will only intensify. Organizations that establish consistent, cross-cloud monitoring capabilities today will be better positioned to adapt to evolving threats and compliance requirements tomorrow.
Aviatrix Workload Threat Visibility makes multicloud security both practical and effective by providing security teams with the visibility they need to detect threats, validate controls, and demonstrate compliance across all cloud environments.
With Workload Threat Visibility, organizations no longer need to choose between multicloud flexibility and security effectiveness.
For organizations ready to gain unprecedented visibility into their multicloud workload activity, Aviatrix Workload Threat Visibility is available now.
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