Aviatrix-Megaport Alliance Fortifies the Future of Hybrid Network Security

At a glance

• Aviatrix and Megaport expanded their partnership on April 8, 2025, to encrypt traffic across Megaport’s global network.
• Aviatrix’s High-Performance Encryption now runs on Megaport’s Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) fabric.
• Enterprises get encrypted hybrid and multicloud links without building the encryption themselves.
• The pitch is zero trust policy and faster failover for traffic between data centers and clouds.

Encryption comes to Megaport’s network

Aviatrix, which sells cloud networking software, and Megaport, which sells on-demand private connections between data centers and clouds, announced an expanded partnership on April 8, 2025. It brings Aviatrix High-Performance Encryption to Megaport’s global NaaS fabric, so traffic moving between an enterprise’s sites and its cloud accounts can be encrypted at high speed. No new hardware is needed.

How the pieces fit

Aviatrix builds software that runs a single network across several clouds. Megaport owns the private interconnection network. Aviatrix Transit on Edge now runs inside Megaport’s platform, so customers can manage both from one place and encrypt traffic end to end.

What customers get

The companies are aiming at two problems. Moving workloads to the cloud is slow when private links have to be set up by hand, and private links are often not encrypted by default. The integration adds BFD failure detection, BGP traffic engineering and central visibility on top.

Why encrypt private links

Many companies assume private connections are safe because they don’t cross the public internet. They aren’t. Attackers who get into a carrier or colocation network can still read unencrypted traffic, and encrypting every link while enforcing zero trust policies closes that gap.

The business case

For Megaport, encryption makes its network more attractive to regulated customers such as banks and health systems. Aviatrix gets reach.

What changes for network teams

Network teams that already use Megaport can add Aviatrix encryption without redesigning their topology. That shortens the path for cloud migrations that have stalled over security reviews.

Open questions

Customers will want to see how the encryption affects throughput at scale. They will also want to know how the two companies split support when something breaks, and how pricing works across both products.

Should you encrypt your private links?

The Aviatrix and Megaport deal targets a gap many hybrid networks still have: private links that carry sensitive traffic in the clear. Companies running workloads across several clouds should check whether their interconnects are encrypted today. If not, this is one way to fix it.

Fred Templeton, CISA, CASP, SEC+

Fred Templeton is a practicing Information Systems Auditor in the Washington DC area. Fred works as a government contractor and uses his skills in cyber security to make our country's information systems safer from cyber threats. Fred holds a master's degree in cybersecurity and is currently working on his PHD in Information Systems.