In today’s IT world, we are relying more and more on public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure and Google Cloud which typically have large IP address allocations. These cloud providers have the right to change the IP address of your hosted environment at any point in time and it is important that as network engineers, we can configure our equipment to dynamically adapt to applications changing IP addresses.  

Although in some environments use proxy servers for web traffic, there are some applications and websites which simply don’t work via a proxy, meaning traffic must bypass a firewall, typically at your internet edge.

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