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Legacy Firewalls Were Designed for Perimeter Defense in a Different Era. That era is over. Welcome to the Containment Era.
Cloud environments are dynamic, multicloud, and highly distributed—yet most security architectures still rely on centralized, perimeter-based firewalls. This mismatch creates blind spots, bottlenecks, and inconsistent enforcement, increasing risk as cloud scale accelerates.
Perimeter-era design limit
Legacy firewalls were built for north-south traffic and static networks, leaving east-west cloud traffic largely uninspected and exposed.
Incomplete workload visibility
Security teams lack a real-time view of VMs, containers, serverless, and managed services—making it impossible to govern what they can’t see.
Policy breaks as clouds scale
IP-based, per-cloud rules can’t keep pace with dynamic workloads, leading to inconsistent enforcement, gaps, and operational sprawl.
Chokepoint Security vs. Containment Architecture
A chokepoint governs the traffic that routes through it. Communication Governance governs every path.
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"The distinction is not 'egress filtering vs. no egress filtering.' The distinction is where the enforcement lives."
Discover Every Workload. Define Intent. Enforce Everywhere.
Security everywhere, not just the perimeter.
Aviatrix Distributed Cloud Firewall (DCF) replaces perimeter-era security with a cloud-native, distributed enforcement model. It discovers every workload, defines intent once, and enforces policy inline across clouds – eliminating blind- spots, bottlenecks, and inconsistent controls as environments scale, without slowing innovation.
Discover All Workloads
Continuously discovers VMs, containers, serverless, and managed services across clouds, giving security teams a realtime, authoritative view of what exists and communicates.
Define Intent, Not Ips
Security policies are built on identity and business intent—not static IPs—so rules stay consistent and durable as workloads scale, move, and change.
Enforce Inline Everywhere
Policies are enforced at the source of traffic across clouds and environments, stopping unauthorized access immediately without hairpinning or centralized firewalling.
Multiple SecOps Capabilities, One Unified Security Fabric
Aviatrix Distributed Cloud Firewall delivers cloud native security capabilities purpose-built for distributed, multicloud environments. Each capability works together as a unified system—providing continuous visibility, identity-based policy, and inline enforcement everywhere workloads run, without centralized choke points or operational drag.
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Discovery Engine
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Workload Grouping
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Intent-Based Model
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Distributed Enforcement
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Policy-as-Code
Continuous Cloud Asset Discovery Engine
Continuously discovers and inventories every workload across clouds—including VMs, Kubernetes, serverless, and managed services—using cloud APIs and live traffic observation. This eliminates blind spots created by ephemeral resources and provides a real-time source of truth for security governance.
Identity-Based Smart Workload Grouping
Dynamically groups workloads using cloud native identity—tags, labels, namespaces, and service identity—rather than static IPs. As environments scale or change, policies automatically apply to new workloads, ensuring security keeps pace without manual updates or risk gaps.
Intent-Based Policy Model Across Clouds
Security teams define intent once—such as which applications can communicate—and the fabric translates and enforces those policies consistently across AWS, Azure, and GCP. This removes per-cloud complexity and ensures uniform Zero Trust enforcement everywhere.
Distributed Inline Enforcement at Source
Enforces full L4–L7 inspection directly at the source of traffic, dropping unauthorized connections at the first hop. This eliminates latency, bottlenecks, and single points of failure inherent in centralized firewall architectures while improving security coverage.
Policy-as-Code with CI/CD Automation
All firewall policies are managed as code through Terraform and CI/CD pipelines, enabling version control, peer review, and automated deployment. Security changes become auditable, repeatable, and fast—aligning security operations with modern DevOps velocity.
of cloud workloads discovered — VMs, containers, serverless, and managed services — including ephemeral resources legacy tools miss
defined once, enforced consistently across AWS, Azure, and GCP — no per-cloud rules, no drift, no gaps
No centralized bottlenecks
No brittle IP-based rules
No per-cloud management overhead
Frequently Asked Questions
Aviatrix Distributed Cloud Firewall secures every cloud workload with continuous discovery, identity-based SmartGroups, and inline enforcement at every gateway, no hairpinning, no blind spots.
Aviatrix DCF is built on Cloud Asset Inventory (CAI), which continuously discovers and classifies every workload across AWS, Azure, and GCP—including ephemeral and managed services that legacy tools often miss. This gives security leaders a single, authoritative view of what exists and what communicates across their cloud estate, closing visibility gaps that increase breach risk and audit exposure.
Traditional firewalls only see traffic routed through them, and cloud native security groups are static, IP-based, and CSP-specific. Aviatrix DCF uses identity-based SmartGroups and intent-driven policies that are written once and enforced everywhere—across clouds, regions, and workload types. Security teams gain consistent governance and deep inspection without managing per-cloud tools, brittle IP rules, or centralized choke points.
Zero Trust requires visibility and enforcement on east-west traffic, not just north-south flows. Aviatrix DCF enforces policy at the source of traffic, dropping unauthorized connections at the first hop and preventing lateral movement across workloads, Kubernetes namespaces, and services. Policies automatically adapt as environments change, ensuring new workloads are secured the moment they are deployed.
Aviatrix DCF is designed for modern cloud operating models where infrastructure and applications move fast. All policies are managed as code through Terraform and CI/CD pipelines, making security changes auditable, repeatable, and automated. This eliminates manual firewall updates, reduces operational friction, and allows security teams to keep pace with developer velocity—without sacrificing control or governance.
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Aviatrix DCF discovers every workload across your cloud estate, enforces consistent Zero Trust policy inline, and gives security teams a single pane of governance — without centralized bottlenecks, brittle IP rules, or per-cloud complexity. See it live.
