“I started to rethink whether the traditional four-layer model with network underlays, tunneling using overlays, network- focused security, and hub-and-spoke architectures was how I wanted to build for the cloud. I wanted to modernize my infrastructure to focus on user identity and workload endpoints—not IP addresses, VPCs, and subnets.”

“We needed consistent, repeatable architecture that we could spin up and down to meet whatever demand came down the pipeline. We just couldn’t keep going to our networking and security teams with all these demands that needed to be done right then. We needed to be more flexible, more dynamic, …