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title: "About Infoblox vNIOS for AWS"
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> ⚠️ <span style="color: #000000">In this document, the term "on-premises" refers to your enterprise network.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">You can use Infoblox vNIOS for AWS virtual appliances to provide enterprise-grade DN</span>S and IPAM services across your AWS VPCs. Instead of manually provisioning IP addresses and DNS name spaces for network devices and interfaces, you can deploy an Infoblox vNIOS for AWS instance as one of the following:

- A standalone NIOS appliance to provide DNS service in your Amazon VPC.
- A virtual cloud member tied to an on-premises (non-Cloud) NIOS Grid.
- A Grid Master synchronizing with other AWS-hosted vNIOS Grid members in your Amazon VPC, and across VPCs or Availability Zones in different Amazon Regions.
- A Grid Master or a member in a high availability (HA) setup starting from NIOS 9.0.4.

Infoblox vNIOS for AWS supports fully automated allocations of IP addresses and DNS record creation for business workloads. You can reduce provisioning errors, and quickly provision and de-commission resources in your public cloud. NIOS handles IP address management of AWS instances, provisioning, and managing all private IP addresses through IPAM. You can delegate different networks in your Amazon VPC to different Infoblox vNIOS for AWS Cloud Platform Appliances for management. vNIOS for AWS instances can be deployed with both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. For more information about the supported vNIOS models, see *[vNIOS for AWS X6 Series](https://docs.infoblox.com/space/vniosspec/1488781383/vNIOS+for+AWS+X6+Series)* and *[vNIOS for AWS X5 Series](https://docs.infoblox.com/space/vniosspec/1488551967/vNIOS+for+AWS+X5+Series)*.

After starting your Infoblox vNIOS for AWS instances, you can use vDiscovery to discover and to periodically re-discover all resources in networks across multiple projects inside your Amazon cloud and synchronize data with NIOS. Infob<span style="color: #000000">lox vNIOS for AWS also supports flexible deployment options, including the Elastic Scaling feature for automatic provisioning of Infoblox vNIOS for AWS instances in your Amazon VPCs. For more information about vDiscovery and elastic scaling, refer to the </span><span style="color: #000000">*Infoblox*</span><span style="color: #000000"> </span><span style="color: #000000">*NIOS*</span><span style="color: #000000"> </span><span style="color: #000000">*Documentation*</span><span style="color: #000000">. For requirements to use vDiscovery on AWS, see </span><span style="color: #000000">*[vDiscovery on AWS VPCs](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NAIG/pages/37650904)*</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>

With Network Insight appliances deployed on the AWS public cloud, you can use the discovery feature to detect devices in your network and to collect and manage the device data from Grid Manager. For more information about Network Insight, refer to the *[Infoblox NIOS Documentation](https://docs.infoblox.com/)*.

<span style="color: #000000">Infoblox vNIOS for AWS deployments may be part of a hybrid cloud strategy that supports managing organization assets on public clouds such as Amazon, and on private clouds such as OpenStack and VMware. With the inclusion of Infoblox vNIOS for AWS, the Infoblox Cloud Network Automation solution provides core network services to centralize management across the following:</span>

- <span style="color: #000000">AWS EC2 public clouds</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">VMware and OpenStack private clouds</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">Traditional enterprise networks</span>

<span style="color: #000000">You can use Grid Manager as a unified console to support all Cloud platforms, to ensure uniform DNS policies, and to provision network and IP addresses. Infoblox vNIOS for AWS also supports DNS Firewall licensing for enhanced security and malware detection within your AWS cloud. For information about Infoblox Cloud Network Automation, refer to the </span><span style="color: #000000">*Infoblox*</span><span style="color: #000000"> </span><span style="color: #000000">*NIOS*</span><span style="color: #000000"> </span><span style="color: #000000">*Documentation*</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>

With the Amazon Route 53 integration feature, you can enable NIOS to span across your enterprise networks and AWS VPCs to discover and integrate the Route 53 DNS data with the NIOS database to get a unified console experience in NIOS. This feature allows you to synchronize Route 53 data from a single AWS account to NIOS or from multiple AWS accounts (of an AWS organization) to NIOS using a single NIOS cloud admin account.

<span style="color: #000000">Infoblox vNIOS for AWS supports extensions to the Amazon API. Grid members or the Grid Master can act as an API proxy to send AWS automation of Cloud administrators, provisioning, and management requests to the Amazon API. You can use NIOS configuration tasks or cloud API clients to send AWS API requests through any NIOS or vNIOS appliance designated as the API Proxy. For information, see </span>*[Setting Up the Infoblox AWS API Proxy](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NAIG/pages/37519773)*<span style="color: #000000"> and </span>*[Setting up a Grid Member as the API Proxy](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NAIG/pages/37716393)*<span style="color: #000000">.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">In this manual, you will learn how to provision and manage Infoblox vNIOS for AWS instances in the Amazon Web Services public cloud platform.</span>