Combining networking technologies to optimize wide area network traffic

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
• establishing a communication network for use by cloud-native applications hosted by a scalable application service platform, the communication network including a first wide area network (WAN) transport technology on top of a second WAN transport technology that is different from the first WAN transport technology;
• receiving, via an application programming interface (API) associated with the first WAN transport technology, a request to establish a communication session for use by a first application of the cloud-native applications to communicate, over the communication network, with a resource associated with the application, the request including an indication of a threshold service level according to which traffic of the communication session is to be handled;
• receiving control plane information associated with the second WAN transport technology, the control plane information indicating one or more routes between data plane elements of the second WAN transport technology and respective service levels associated with each one of the one or more routes;
• determining, based at least in part on the control plane information, a first route of the one or more routes that is optimized for the traffic of the communication session and that has a first service level that meets or exceeds the threshold service level;
• and
• establishing the communication session for use by the first application such that the traffic is sent or received using the first route.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• establishing a communication network for use by cloud-native applications hosted by a scalable application service platform, the communication network including a first wide area network (WAN) transport technology on top of a second WAN transport technology that is different from the first WAN transport technology;
• receiving, via an application programming interface (API) associated with the first WAN transport technology, a request to establish a communication session for use by a first application of the cloud-native applications to communicate, over the communication network, with a resource associated with the application, the request including an indication of a threshold service level according to which traffic of the communication session is to be handled;
• receiving control plane information associated with the second WAN transport technology, the control plane information indicating one or more routes between data plane elements of the second WAN transport technology and respective service levels associated with each one of the one or more routes;
• determining, based at least in part on the control plane information, a first route of the one or more routes that is optimized for the traffic of the communication session and that has a first service level that meets or exceeds the threshold service level;
• and
• establishing the communication session for use by the first application such that the traffic is sent or received using the first route.