Major cloud providers are beginning to understand the need for tools tailored to manage multicloud services, but it has taken time.

Amid the multitude of product announcements made by Amazon Web Services Inc. at its re:Invent conference in December was a set of new capabilities for AWS Transit Gateway, a network hub that enables customers to manage connectivity between on-premises data centers and virtual private clouds.

“We started off with Amazon without a direct connect gateway, without a transit gateway, without a lot of the things that are available today,” said David Shinnick (pictured, third from left), vice president and principal system architect at FactSet Research Systems Inc. “Just because it wasn’t there doesn’t mean we didn’t need it.”

Shinnick spoke with John Furrier (pictured, far right), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and Steve Mullaney (pictured, far left), president and chief executive officer of Aviatrix Systems Inc., during the Altitude 2020 event in Santa Clara, California. He was joined by Bobby Willoughby (pictured, second from left), cloud network architect at Aegon, and Luis Castillo (pictured, second from right), senior global network engineering manager at National Instruments Corp., and they discussed why enterprises need multicloud orchestration and how vendors are starting to fill the tools gap. (* Disclosure below.)

Search for simplicity

For Aegon, the organization’s networking staff was looking for orchestration tools that could simplify systems management.

“That journey came because of the need for simplicity, the need for multicloud orchestration without us having to do reprogramming efforts across every cloud as it comes along,” Willoughby said. “We want to be able to write to an API which Aviatrix has and have them do the orchestration for us so that we don’t have to do it four times.”

Tools such as those provided by major cloud providers like AWS or orchestration firms such as Aviatrix are starting to fill an important need as enterprises seek support for “day two” operational challenges.

“Cloud-native tools don’t have a lot of maturity in that space,” Castillo said. “When you run into an issue, you’re going to have a bad day going through millions and millions of logs just to try and understand what’s going on. That’s something the industry now is just starting to realize. It’s such a big gap.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Altitude event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner and co-producer for Altitude 2020. Neither Aviatrix Systems Inc. nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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