Written by Nicholaos Sirris
Enterprise IT has entered a new era of distributed infrastructure, where applications, users, and data no longer reside within a single data center. According to Gartner, more than 80 percent of enterprises now operate in hybrid or multi cloud environments, and global spending on cloud infrastructure is expected to surpass 1 trillion dollars by 2027. As this transformation accelerates, visibility across these distributed networks has become a top priority. Organizations need real time insight into both on premises and cloud environments to ensure resilience, performance, and compliance, yet legacy network monitoring tools, designed for static data centers, often struggle to keep pace with this dynamic, cloud connected world.
In this landscape, AKIPS has become a trusted platform for organizations that require fast polling, high performance monitoring, and actionable visibility across large and complex environments. Many teams rely on AKIPS to keep their critical infrastructure observable, from core routers and switches to firewalls, servers, branch locations, and remote sites. As networks expand across datacenters, branches, and cloud workloads, customers increasingly need deployment flexibility and the ability to extend monitoring seamlessly into new architectures without sacrificing compatibility or operational simplicity.
Today, we are excited to announce that AKIPS is now available as an AWS deployment. This new option brings together the scalability and resilience of AWS with the speed, simplicity, and efficiency that AKIPS is known for. Customers can now deploy AKIPS entirely in AWS while continuing to monitor their physical routers, switches, firewalls, servers, and applications in real time, just as they do today. This allows organizations to modernize their monitoring architecture and align with cloud first strategies without disrupting existing operations.
How Teams Support Growing and Distributed Networks with AKIPS
Running AKIPS in AWS unlocks new ways to support your infrastructure as it expands and becomes more distributed.
First, AKIPS in AWS strengthens resilience by using AWS infrastructure with built in redundancy and regional durability, helping maintain steady visibility during maintenance windows, on site disruptions, or hardware failures.
Hosting AKIPS in the cloud also makes it easier to scale as your network grows, since compute and storage resources can be adjusted to match your environment without hardware purchases or planned upgrade cycles. As device counts rise or polling loads change, AWS provides the capacity needed to support expanding operations.
The AWS deployment also supports hybrid environments. AKIPS can run in AWS while maintaining secure reachability to routers, switches, firewalls, servers, and legacy systems through VPN or Direct Connect. This creates a unified view of activity across multiple locations, simplifying how teams maintain visibility as networks evolve. Throughout this shift, the AKIPS experience stays familiar, with the same fast polling, real time alerts, and reporting workflows teams already rely on.
Why AKIPS Is Evolving to Meet You in the Cloud
Many customers we speak with are undergoing significant changes in how their infrastructure is hosted. While network teams continue to monitor through AKIPS and other tools, the server groups responsible for running these platforms are shifting away from traditional hypervisors such as VMware and Hyper V. In many environments, VMware footprints are being retired as part of broader cloud strategies, and on premises server infrastructure is being decommissioned in favor of cloud first operations.
As this shift accelerates, teams need a way to keep monitoring workflows stable while aligning with the environments their infrastructure groups now support. Cloud hypervisors have matured to support FreeBSD and similar requirements, which removes the technical barriers that previously prevented cloud deployment. With these capabilities now in place, AKIPS can operate in AWS with additional cloud platforms to follow while seamlessly observing traditional on-premises routers, switches, and branch equipment.
How AKIPS Elevates Your AWS Monitoring
- Enhanced Visibility and Control
Gain unified insights into your entire network, from datacenter to cloud, and detect issues before they affect operations.
- Agility Without Disruption
Modernize your monitoring approach without redesigning infrastructure or retraining staff. The AWS model remains fully compatible with existing network configurations.
- Faster Scalability and Performance
Increase monitoring capacity as your network grows and maintain consistent performance during traffic spikes.
- Improved Reliability
Use AWS global infrastructure and redundancy to support dependable uptime for critical visibility services.
- Reduced Operational Overhead
Avoid hardware procurement cycles, maintenance tasks, and datacenter dependencies through a cloud hosted deployment.
- Future Ready Monitoring
Support evolving hybrid and multi cloud strategies with a deployment model designed for long term flexibility.
Ensuring a Seamless Transition to AWS
As teams begin evaluating AKIPS in AWS, one of the first considerations is whether the cloud deployment can still monitor the same physical infrastructure they rely on today. Testing confirmed that it can. AKIPS in AWS maintains secure connectivity to on-premises routers; switches, firewalls, servers, and branch equipment through VPN, Direct Connect, or Megaport, and latency differences were barely measurable. This ensures that existing monitoring workflows continue uninterrupted, even as the platform moves into the cloud.
Performance consistency is another area teams often evaluate during modernization. AKIPS running in AWS delivers the same fast polling, alerting behavior, and reporting workflows that customers depend on in on premises deployments. Because the underlying monitoring engine and data processing model remain unchanged, teams can transition to AWS without altering their operational practices or retraining staff.
The ability to host AKIPS in the cloud became possible only recently. AKIPS relies on FreeBSD for its performance and efficiency, but for many years cloud hypervisors did not support the necessary versions. With AWS now offering compatible hypervisor support, AKIPS can run reliably within EC2 while retaining the characteristics that make it a preferred monitoring solution for large scale environments.
Migration is also straightforward. Teams can deploy AKIPS in AWS, validate connectivity, and use the built-in backup and restore process to transfer one to three years of historical insight from their on-premises instance. This preserves long term trends, performance baselines, and reporting history, ensuring continuity as the monitoring platform moves into the cloud.
Reliability and scalability are the central benefits of the AWS deployment model. AWS infrastructure provides built in redundancy and durability, supporting dependable uptime for critical visibility services. And as networks grow or polling volumes increase, compute and storage resources can be adjusted on demand, allowing AKIPS to scale without hardware purchases or capacity planning cycles. This elasticity ensures that monitoring performance remains consistent even as device counts and traffic patterns change.
Move Forward with AKIPS in AWS
As networks become more distributed and cloud adoption accelerates, the need for a monitoring platform that can scale, adapt, and maintain visibility across every environment has never been more important. With AKIPS now available in AWS, organizations gain a future ready deployment model that supports their hybrid infrastructure today and positions them for whatever comes next. Whether you are optimizing on-premises operations, expanding into cloud workloads, or navigating a full cloud first transition, AKIPS delivers the visibility, performance, and simplicity needed to stay ahead of change.
Ready to explore AKIPS in AWS
Connect with your Tufin representative or partner to evaluate sizing, discuss connectivity options, and start planning your cloud deployment. The move to a more scalable, flexible monitoring architecture begins with a single conversation, and we are here to help you every step of the way.