Over several decades, Aegon established itself as a leading financial services group. Its infrastructure evolved along with it, growing unsustainably complex.
Challenge:
Aegon required greater agility, scalability, and a faster go-to-market strategy in an increasingly complex multicloud environment driven by dynamic financial markets. As mergers and acquisitions fueled the need for more competitive products and services, they needed a solution to connect VPCs and VNets while managing encryption – without increasing headcount or complexity.
Solution:
Aviatrix provided Aegon with a unified multicloud operational model, simplifying encryption and network management across AWS and Azure. Aviatrix’s advanced networking features addressed overlapping IP challenges and delivered secure network segmentation, distributed firewalling, and enterprise-class visibility. This automation enabled faster and easier management of VPCs and VNets, improving overall agility while reducing complexity and manual effort.
Impact:
With Aviatrix, the Aegon team enhanced their scalability and can now spin up network tunnels in 3-4 clicks - cutting delivery time from hours to seconds.
“I used to tell the team, it’s like we’re operating a Baskin-Robbins of infrastructure, which you can imagine quickly becomes costly and doesn’t allow us to manage standardization where appropriate.”
Glynis Coutee
Head of Infrastructure
The Business Backbone: Intelligent Cloud Networking
Aviatrix delivered Aegon a consistent multicloud operational model with repeatable designs in and across its Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other cloud service providers. Advanced networking and security features enabled Aegon to simplify overlapping IP challenges in any cloud with high-performance encryption, secure network segmentation, and distributed firewalling. Aviatrix also delivers enterprise-class visibility and control to Aegon that native cloud services do not provide, ensuring application availability and performance while establishing a solid foundation for the company’s multicloud networking infrastructure.
Achieving Network Agility and Scalability
After deploying Aviatrix, Aegon saw value almost immediately as it was able to improve agility and implement automation. IT can now partner with the company’s business units to understand needs and deliver truly impactful outcomes for the customer. Aegon can also spin up network tunnels in just 3-4 clicks. What used to take hours to deliver, now takes seconds.
Aegon has also increased its ability to scale without significant investment in headcount for multicloud support. Leveraging rich APIs that Aviatrix already had in place, Aegon avoided building much of the automation that it needed to support its connectivity. Aviatrix has also delivered the increased visibility the company needed to inspect traffic and secure its network.
“Working with a small team to deliver what we are doing today would not have been possible if we had not implemented Aviatrix. We would have needed to add staff to be able to manage what we're doing today,” said Coutee. “The one thing I would say to people that are taking the cloud journey is, for the multicloud approach, don't try to do it yourself. Recognize that there are vendors out there that you can partner with to help you. People need to think of the vendor as a partner, and not just a vendor.”
Aegon is an integrated, diversified, international financial services group with 31.7 million customers worldwide and $882B in revenue. The company offers investment, protection, and retirement solutions.
