Infoblox streamlines IP address management across hybrid cloud environments with AWS

Infoblox announced a new integration between Infoblox Universal IP Address Management (Universal IPAM) and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud IP Address Manager (Amazon VPC IPAM). The integration is designed to accelerate application rollouts and updates by simplifying cross-team collaboration through the automated management of IP addresses across on-premises and AWS. This allows NetOps teams to maintain vital controls and avoid outages from IP conflicts while empowering CloudOps teams to move quickly through fast access to IP address blocks for efficient deployments.

As enterprises adopt hybrid cloud strategies with separate IP systems across diverse environments, keeping these IP address management (IPAM) systems synchronised improves operational posture. It avoids overlapping IP assignments across on-premises and cloud networks, which can prevent costly outages and delays in service delivery. Improved visibility can disambiguate conflicts while automated processes reduce the risk of human error and accelerate provisioning. This integration addresses those challenges by enabling seamless synchronisation from Amazon VPC IPAM to Universal IPAM and eliminating IP conflicts.

​​​Key benefits of the new integration include:

• Enabling cross-team collaboration: Smooths IT workflows, allowing CloudOps teams to request IPv4 address blocks directly from Infoblox using familiar AWS interfaces—AWS Management Console, AWS CLI and SDKs—while NetOps teams retain centralised control via the Infoblox Portal by assigning IPv4 blocks on AWS.
• Unlocking enhanced visibility: Improves visibility into IPv4 address assignments to Amazon VPC IPAM top-level pools, enabling more efficient resource allocation across on-premises and AWS.
• Avoiding costly outages: Automatically validates IPv4 blocks for uniqueness before assigning to AWS, which prevents potential service disruptions that could be caused due to overlapping IPs across AWS cloud and on-premises networks.

“Our integration with Amazon VPC IPAM is more than a feature update—it’s a response to one of the biggest operational bottlenecks in hybrid cloud today: IP address sprawl and siloed management,” said Mukesh Gupta, chief product officer, Infoblox. “By bringing NetOps and CloudOps together, we’re helping enterprises reduce costly outages and accelerate cloud adoption. This is another step forward in unifying the on-premises and cloud worlds so IT teams can focus on innovation rather than firefighting.”