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Trellix vIPS for AWS is a GWLB-based solution with traffic mirroring that is capable of inspecting traffic flowing into and out of protected AWS instances. The solution has been designed to adapt to a public cloud environment and to scale with the requirements of your organization's subnets.

Deployment of Trellix vIPS can be fulfilled to suit your requirements based on the direction of traffic and inspection mode. In this section, we provide you with some scenarios which can serve as basic guidelines for your deployment.

Scenario 1: Deploying the Trellix vIPS instances in the same region for AWS Traffic Mirroring

This deployment represents VPCs that require Trellix vIPS to be placed between resources inside the VPC and outside of the VPC, such as over the Internet.

You can deploy the following components:

  • Manager (A minimum of 1 Manager instance is required)

  • Virtual IPS Sensor (A minimum of 1 Sensor instance is required)

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Scenario 2: Deploying the Trellix vIPS instances in the cross regions for AWS Traffic Mirroring

This deployment represents VPCs that require Trellix vIPS to be placed between resources inside the VPC and outside of the VPC, such as over the Internet.

You can deploy the following components:

  • Manager (A minimum of 1 Manager instance is required)

  • Virtual IPS Sensor (A minimum of 1 Sensor instance is required)

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