A successful cloud journey rests upon the foundation of a well-planned cloud network architecture. With cloud's rapid acceleration comes new networking requirements and capabilities, which requires us to periodically re-evaluate our current architecture. <br><Br> This briefing will discuss new cloud networking platforms that simplify the architecture and reduce the operational complexity of traditional native approaches to networking. These new approaches provide a simplified operational model, multicloud visibility, integrated network processes across cloud providers and leverage software-defined cloud networking: a new capability that provides you software-defined connectivity with control over routing, switching and security.