Cisco Technology, Inc.

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

Gino John

Bhaskar Bhupalam

Vinay Prabhu

Mohil Khare

Kapil Dev

Mohit Aggarwal

Pradeep Budanuru Kenche Gowda

Farqad Moshili

Automated, intelligent selection of regions for cloud-based firewall deployment and scaling of firewalls down to as few as zero in a cloud region is described herein. The service collects and evaluates Usage metrics pertaining to firewalls deployed in each region are collected and evaluated to determine whether to scale firewalls in a region up or down. Scaling down of firewalls to zero is conditioned on at least one other region having a firewall(s) available for traffic inspection such that the number of total firewalls available for inspection of network traffic is at least one at any given time. When scaling up through deployment of additional firewalls, if endpoint devices located near a region in which a firewall is not available contribute substantially to firewall usage in another region, the region nearest to those endpoint devices is determined and selected for deployment of the additional firewalls.

Intelligent deployment region selection and scaling of cloud-based firewalls

The present disclosure is directed to management of migration of SD-WAN solutions in a multi-cloud structure upon detection of a failover event. In one aspect, a method includes monitoring, using virtual bonds of a network orchestration component, clusters of virtual management components of multiple cloud networks, corresponding virtual management components of one of the multiple cloud networks implementing one or more services of a Software-Defined Wide Access Network (SD-WAN) solution; detecting, using the virtual bonds, a failover event at the one of the multiple cloud networks; and identifying, by the virtual bonds, a new destination cloud network to migrate the one or more services of the SD-WAN solution to, from a source cloud network at which the failover event is detected.

Seamless multi-cloud SDWAN distaster recovery using orchestration plane

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