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Aviatrix Distributed Cloud Firewall

Secure every cloud workload with continuous discovery, identity-based SmartGroups, and inline enforcement at every gateway — no hairpinning, no blind spots.

Aviatrix Controller
Aviatrix Controller · Policy Engine · Unified Visibility
Policy-as-Code
Terraform & CI/CD pipelines, security rules version-controlled
Single Rule Engine
Define once, enforced across AWS, Azure & GCP consistently
Continuous Discovery
Auto-inventories all workloads via cloud APIs & live traffic
CoPilot Visibility
Unified view of traffic, threats & policy across all clouds
WebGroups
Policy Push
ExternalGroups
Internet
WebGroups
Controls north-south egress · Enforced on Spoke Gateways
Domain NamesFQDN-based egress filtering
URLsFull URL path-level control
Inline enforcement · No hairpin routing
Amazon Web Services
Virtual Private Cloud
Policy Push
GW
Spoke Gateway
Inline L4-L7 · First-hop enforcement
Distributed Inline Enforcement
Drops unauthorized traffic at source
Enforced
Microsoft Azure
Virtual Private Cloud
Policy Push
GW
Spoke Gateway
Inline L4-L7 · First-hop enforcement
Distributed Inline Enforcement
Drops unauthorized traffic at source
Enforced
✦ SmartGroupsIdentity-based · Spanning AWS & Azure
AWS Workloads
EC2 Instances
EKS / Pods
Lambda / Fargate
RDS / S3
Cross-Cloud
E-W Policy
Azure Workloads
Azure VMs
AKS / Pods
Azure Functions
Managed DBs
Policy enforcement spans workloads across AWS & Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Virtual Private Cloud
Policy Push
GW
Spoke Gateway
Inline L4-L7 · First-hop enforcement
Distributed Inline Enforcement
Drops unauthorized traffic at source
Enforced
✦ SmartGroups
Identity-based · Not IP-based
Compute Engine
GKE / Pods
E-W
Cloud Functions
Cloud SQL
Policy enforcement for workload to workload traffic
On-Prem /
ExternalGroups
Direct Controller Management · Site2Cloud
Geo IPsRegion & country-based access control
SaaS ServicesApproved application policies
Threat FeedsLive threat intelligence & blocking
Identity-based access for external endpoints
Policy automatically applied and enforced across all environments — consistent, continuous, cloud-native

Legend

Policy Push (Controller → Gateway)
Enforcement (Gateway → SmartGroups)
E-W Policy · Workload Traffic
WebGroup Egress Control
ExternalGroup / On-Prem (Site2Cloud)

Legacy Firewalls Were Designed for Perimeter Defense in a Different 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
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
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.

Cloud Drift
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.

Discover Every Workload. Define Intent. Enforce Everywhere.

Discover Every Workload

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 chokepoints.

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.

Discovery Engine

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.

Continuous-Cloud

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.

Identity-Based Smart

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.

Intent-Based-Policy

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.

Distributed-Inline

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.

Practical Takeaways from NSA’s Zero Trust Guidance
  • %

    of cloud workloads discovered — VMs, containers, serverless, and managed services — including ephemeral resources legacy tools miss

  • Policy

    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

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  • What is Aviatrix Distributed Cloud Firewall?

    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.

  • How does Aviatrix DCF improve visibility across multicloud environments?

    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.

  • How is DCF different from traditional firewalls or cloud native security groups?

    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.

  • How does DCF support Zero Trust and limit lateral movement?

    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.

  • How does DCF align with DevOps and modern operating models?

    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.

See Your Full Cloud Attack Surface in Minutes

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.

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