VPC Peering for UEM: Architecting Private Connectivity at Scale

For enterprise environments managing high-density device fleets up to 500,000 devices, network latency and security are critical. Hexnode Dedicated Connectivity provides a private, high-speed bridge between your Dedicated Hexnode Cluster and your internal corporate network, bypassing the public internet to ensure seamless, “zero-latency” management.

The Private Bridge: VPC Peering

Standard UEM communications typically travel over the public internet. With VPC Peering, Hexnode establishes a direct routing connection between the Hexnode AWS/Azure environment and your corporate VPC.

How it Works

Traffic remains entirely within the cloud provider’s private network backbone. This is essential for secure communication with internal systems such as:

• Identity Providers (IdP)
• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• Domain Asset File Systems (DAFS)

Key Technical Benefits

• Latency Reduction: Experience a 40–60% decrease in latency compared to public routing.
• Enhanced Security: By keeping management traffic off the public web, you eliminate several vectors for Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks.
• Simplified Routing: Internal resources see Hexnode traffic as “local” traffic within the peered CIDR block.

Dedicated Egress (Static IPs)

Large-scale organizations with multiple sub-companies often face “Security Over-reach”—where overly strict firewalls inadvertently block management traffic. To solve this, Hexnode utilizes Dedicated Egress Points.

• Immutable Static IPs: Your dedicated cluster is assigned a specific set of permanent Static IPs.
• The Workflow: Instead of allowlisting broad, rotating IP ranges, your 500-man technician team and 500,000 devices only need to allowlist these specific, unchanging IPs in local firewalls.
• Consistency: This ensures that patch deployments and inventory syncs are never interrupted by regional firewall updates.

Optimization for Global Scale

To maintain performance across continents, Hexnode employs sophisticated routing and bandwidth management:

Geo-Proximity Routing

Hexnode utilizes regional connectivity nodes to minimize the physical distance data must travel.

• Example: A device in Singapore connects to a regional Asian node, while a device in London hits a European node.
• Result: All regional traffic is aggregated and fed back into the master VPC via optimized paths, preventing the “long-haul” lag common in centralized global systems.

Bandwidth Guarantees

To prevent “bottlenecking” at the network edge during massive inventory syncs or global patch deployments:

• Dedicated 10Gbps+ Pipes: We provide high-throughput capacity to ensure that even peak-load events do not degrade performance for the end-user or the admin console.

Implementation Checklist

Follow these steps to establish your Dedicated Connectivity bridge: