US 12,010,022 B1 · Global multi-cloud overlay network with regional preference

Abstract

A computerized method for avoiding cross-region communications when utilizing a cloud overlay network is described. The method involves an operation of deploying one or more spoke gateways within at least a first region and a second region of a first virtual private cloud network. Thereafter, a region and a virtual private cloud network associated with a source and a destination of a communication are determined. Upon determining that the destination of the communication resides within a second virtual private cloud network, which is different than the first virtual private cloud network, the routing of the communication between the source and the destination is controlled by one or more spoke gateways solely residing within the region in which the source.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A network, comprising:

a virtual private cloud network including a plurality of regions with each region being an independent geographic area that allows users to host resources including a first region that comprises at least a first workload and a first spoke subnetwork including a first set of spoke gateways and a second region that comprises at least a second workload and a second spoke subnetwork including a second set of spoke gateways;
and
a controller comprising logic maintained on a non-transitory storage medium and configured to establish and restrict routing of (i) network traffic from the at least first workload to a spoke gateway of the first set of spoke gateways and (ii) network traffic from at least the second workload to a spoke gateway of the second set of spoke gateways.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/900,858Filed 31 Aug 2022 · us provisional application

Priority

18 Oct 2021

Granted

11 Jun 2024

Term ends

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Classification7 codes

H04L 12/4641
Interconnection of networks: virtual LANs, VLANs, e.g. virtual private networks [VPN]
H04L 45/76
Routing or path finding of packets in data switching networks: routing in software-defined topologies, e.g. routing between virtual machines
H04L 9/0894
Key distribution or management, e.g. generation, sharing or updating, of cryptographic keys or passwords: escrow, recovery or storing of secret…
H04L 12/4625
LAN interconnection over a bridge based backbone: single bridge functionality, e.g. connection of two networks over a single bridge

Global multi-cloud overlay network with regional preference

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Global multi-cloud overlay network with regional preference

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Abstract

Claims6