The topmost concerns for Enterprises today regarding sending their data over networks are:

1. Guaranteed network performance in terms of data latency.
2. Prevention of unauthorized access to data on the network.

Addressing the above issues is many times mandated by the law or driven by business needs where security and integrity of data are of utmost importance.

Over the last decade, we have witnessed an exponential adoption of public cloud platforms to host compute workloads and store data instead of hosting on-prem hardware infrastructure. Enterprises have also joined this bandwagon, relieving them of managing and procuring on-prem IT infrastructure. Their mission-critical compute workloads and sensitive data have now started residing on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. 

This whitepaper covers how these resources on the public cloud need to be secured without exposure to the public Internet that provides only best-effort services with no guaranteed SLAs.

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