One platform. Every cloud. Zero compromise.
Metro is Metropolis, engineered by Vaxowave: an enterprise-grade, multi-cloud landing zone platform that unifies Azure, AWS and other major cloud providers within a single architectural framework.
Resilience is an architectural decision
Most enterprises run mission-critical workloads in a single cloud region, rely on a single hyperscaler and have disaster recovery plans that may never have been tested at scale. Genuine multi-cloud resilience needs four things working together: active/active or active/passive deployment across clouds and regions, consistent governance across every environment, automated failover, and the operational capacity to run it all without a disproportionately large team.
Metropolis was designed to close that gap. It is not an abstraction layer that dilutes each platform's strengths. It is a native integration approach that keeps the full power of every provider while enabling consistent governance, security and operational oversight across the estate. Read more in The Architecture Imperative.
Automate. Secure. Govern.
Automate
Stamp out new regions through automation. Once the platform is running, a new region takes less than a day.
Secure
Every region arrives with zero public exposure, private endpoints and security controls already active.
Govern
One policy model and one audit trail across every cloud environment.
How the platform works
Unified control
One policy model, one audit trail and one authentication model across every cloud environment and every integrated security appliance, whether your perimeter runs Palo Alto, Fortinet or native cloud controls.
Hyperscaler fabric aware
Built on each provider's own global backbone, not the public internet, for enterprise performance and isolation delivered natively.
Extensible by design
Provider-agnostic at its core. Azure and AWS are the production-ready defaults, and the same automation model is designed to extend to providers such as GCP and Huawei Cloud.
Secure by default
Every region is stamped with zero public exposure, private endpoints, policy enforcement and security controls already active.
Region stamping
The hardest part of enterprise cloud architecture is consistency over time across regions. When teams replicate infrastructure by hand, configuration drift is inevitable. Metropolis removes it through hyperautomated region stamping: you declare a region's role before it is built, and the classification drives the automation.
Anchor regions carry full shared services such as enterprise DNS, firewall inspection, identity infrastructure and centralised egress. Incremental regions are lightweight capacity that inherit from their nearest anchor. Initial platform onboarding typically takes 4 to 8 weeks. Once Metropolis is running, stamping a new region takes less than a day.
Platform defaults
Every deployment, every region, every cloud.
- Private endpoints everywhere, with zero public surface exposure across all services.
- Vendor-agnostic security: Palo Alto, Fortinet and native cloud controls as first-class inspection layers.
- Immutable logs and governance telemetry across every cloud and region.
- Active/active or active/passive multi-region by design.
- Subscription-level isolation, so a failure in one team's environment cannot spread across the estate.
- Hundreds of preventive governance policies built in.
- Documented architecture that gives auditable evidence to insurers, regulators and boards.
Built for regulated industries
Every subscription vended through Metropolis arrives pre-configured with the security posture, network architecture and governance policies that financial institutions require.
- Geo-fenced organisational hierarchy enforcing data residency for POPIA, GDPR and financial services requirements from the moment of deployment.
- Customer-managed keys enforced preventively across storage, databases, messaging and AI services.
- Graduated sovereign tiers: data residency, customer-managed encryption or confidential computing, according to each workload's compliance profile.
- AI inference and model services supported as first-class workloads, with the same graduated controls.
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