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Revolutionizing Cloud Connectivity with Polarin and AWS
By Avanish Yadav, Sr. SA Networking – AWS
By Pratik Mehta, Sr. Solutions Architect – AWS
By Raghav Kathuria, Senior Product Manager – Lightstorm
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As enterprises adopt cloud-first strategies and embark on their AWS Cloud migration journeys, secure and private hybrid connectivity for data and application migration becomes crucial. AWS Direct Connect extends enterprise networks to AWS through trusted partners, offering both dedicated and hosted connections for seamless cloud integration.
The choice between these depends on your bandwidth requirements and ability to connect to an AWS meet-me room or patch panel. AWS team or your chosen partner can guide you in selecting the optimal connection model for your needs. Once connected, enterprises can create Private, Transit, or Public virtual interfaces on their Hosted or Dedicated Connection, based on specific requirements. For a comprehensive overview of these options, we recommend reviewing the Hybrid Connectivity section in AWS white paper, Building a Scalable and Secure Multi-VPC AWS Network Infrastructure.
We recognize enterprises are adopting multi-cloud strategies, hosting applications across multiple cloud providers. This can introduce challenges like high latency, security risks, and inflexible, costly connectivity solutions. Traditional approaches rely on public internet or manual configurations, leading to inefficiencies and limited scalability.
In this blog, we are showing how Polarin by Lightstorm helps solve these issues with a secure, software-defined platform enabling a seamless, low latency, private connectivity to AWS and other clouds. Delivering flexibility, transparency, and cost-efficiency while eliminating the complexity of managing physical infrastructure or rigid contracts.
About Polarin
Polarin provides software defined private connectivity through AWS Direct Connect. It is a networking as a service (NaaS) platform that helps enterprises connect to the cloud. Designed with simplicity, agility, and security at its core, Polarin empowers businesses to establish seamless connectivity across multiple clouds and data centers, bypassing the complexities of traditional networking setups.
Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Connectivity Provisioning
With Polarin, enterprises can provision multi-cloud and hybrid cloud connectivity in less than two minutes – Introducing Polarin. The platform eliminates manual configurations and dependencies on physical infrastructure by leveraging automation and software-defined networking capabilities. Businesses can now create a seamless network mesh between AWS, data center, branches, and other cloud providers with just a few clicks. Figure 1 illustrates how Polarin simplifies multi-cloud and hybrid connectivity.
Figure 1: Architecture pattern via Polarin’s Platform
Features and Benefits of Polarin
- Transparent and easy management between multiple clouds
Managing multi-cloud environments is complex. Polarin simplifies this with a single-pane-of-glass view that enables real-time network management, performance optimization, on-demand scaling, and cost control—allowing businesses to focus on their core operations. - Cloud-like scalability, pay only for what you use
Polarin adopts a cloud-like pay-as-you-go model, allowing businesses to scale bandwidth as needed. The platform offers complete flexibility to adjust connectivity bandwidth requirements up or down in real-time, ensuring customers are only charged for their actual usage. This flexibility benefits growing businesses that require dynamic scaling and helps organizations optimize costs while maintaining high performance. - Private and secure connectivity to AWS Cloud
Public internet connectivity often leads to high latency, security vulnerabilities, and unpredictable performance. Polarin addresses these challenges by offering private and secure connectivity to AWS via AWS Direct Connect, bypassing the public internet entirely. This not only ensures low latency and data security but also reduces egress costs for enterprises.
By adhering to industry regulations and delivering consistent service level agreement (SLA) committed performance, Polarin is an ideal choice for critical workloads that demand reliability and compliance. Figure 2 highlights how Polarin delivers private, secure connectivity to AWS using AWS Direct Connect, helping enterprises avoid the public internet while ensuring high performance and reliability.
Figure 2: Polarin Platform empowering Private, Secure connectivity to AWS
Leverage End-to-End Virtualization
Traditional networking demands high capital investment, hardware provisioning, and long setup times. Polarin eliminates these challenges with a fully virtualized, software-defined setup. Enterprises can provision virtual routers, establish global network meshes, and create any-to-any connectivity in minutes.
This approach removes the dependency on physical infrastructure, reducing latency and avoiding costly back hauling setups. Businesses can benefit from quicker deployment times, improved operational efficiency, and optimized costs.
Billing Integration with Cloud Marketplaces
Polarin is available on AWS Marketplace, enabling enterprises to purchase networking services directly as part of their cloud expenses. Customers can streamline their billing processes, making the connectivity solution an integral part of their overall cloud strategy. This integration also enhances visibility with no hidden charges and trust among customers seeking seamless cloud-native solutions.
Effortless Network Setup Over a Cup of Coffee
Setting up complex multi-cloud or hybrid architectures no longer requires specialized networking expertise. Polarin offers an intuitive, plug-and-play NaaS platform that makes end-to-end provisioning effortless. In just minutes, businesses can configure secure, scalable cloud environments, ensuring optimal performance with minimal effort. The simplicity of Polarin’s approach empowers IT teams to focus on innovation rather than connectivity challenges.
Scenario – A Leading Bank Transforms Its Cloud Connectivity with Polarin
The Challenge
A leading bank in India faced challenges with its existing cloud connectivity solution. Relying on traditional setups resulted in high latency, poor response time, and an unoptimized solution. The bank struggled with rigid contractual terms and lacked the flexibility to adjust bandwidth during peak business hours. Resiliency and high uptime were important criteria for the bank to build reliable network and connectivity to cloud.
The Solution
Polarin stepped in with its agile and secure NaaS platform, offering ultra-low latency private connectivity to AWS through AWS Direct Connect. The solution enabled the bank to provision its network within minutes, eliminating the need to wait weeks to set up AWS Direct Connect. It also ensured secure and compliant connectivity in line with financial industry regulations. Lightstorm delivered best-in-class uptime, providing the bank with 100% network availability within metro cities.
By leveraging Polarin’s software-defined platform, the bank provisioned its hybrid-cloud architecture in within few minutes, eliminating the need for manual configurations and reducing setup costs and time to market. The bank believes financial institutions will benefit from Polarin’s network interconnection services as they are highly sensitive to latency and uptime. The intuitive dashboard provides real-time visibility to their cloud environment, simplifying management across AWS and other cloud providers.
The Results
Polarin has enhanced the bank’s network performance by reducing latency to under 5ms within metro cities, resulting in a noticeably improved customer experience during online transactions. Its secure, compliance-ready infrastructure ensures data protection while adhering to regulatory standards. With a robust, interoperable, and interactive dashboard, the bank can now set up, manage, and monitor its entire network through a single, unified Network-as-a-Service platform. Additionally, Polarin’s software-defined, agile provisioning has sped up time-to-market for new services, enabling the bank to respond swiftly to evolving business needs.
Polarin’s seamless integration with AWS Direct Connect ensured that the bank could meet its performance, security, and fast time to market goals while reducing operational overheads.
Conclusion
Polarin by Lightstorm is transforming enterprise cloud connectivity by delivering secure, scalable, and cost-efficient networking in collaboration with AWS. With capabilities like rapid multi-cloud provisioning, seamless marketplace integration, and regulatory compliance, Polarin simplifies the path to the cloud. As organizations continue to scale their digital infrastructure, Polarin ensures they do so with speed, reliability, and confidence—making it a trusted partner for future-ready cloud networking.
Explore Polarin on the AWS Marketplace and revolutionize your cloud connectivity today!
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Lightstorm – AWS Partner Spotlight
Lightstorm is an AWS Partner that offers a platform enabling businesses to securely connect between public and private clouds. Lightstorm’s SmartNet network is a first-of-its-kind, utility-grade resilient network designed to ensure zero outages, zero flaps, and 100% uptime architecture. Polarin, a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform from Lightstorm, allows enterprises to connect to AWS Cloud and other public and private cloud environments within minutes.