Implementing direct Internet access at every Cisco SD-WAN site improves application experience and reduces unnecessary backhaul. Many modern business applications are hosted in SaaS or public cloud environments. If branch Internet traffic must hairpin through a central data center before reaching those applications, latency increases and central WAN or security stacks can become bottlenecks. SD-WAN DIA allows selected cloud and Internet-bound traffic to exit locally while still applying policy, segmentation, and security controls. This decreases latency to applications hosted by public cloud providers and improves user experience. It also alleviates traffic on MPLS circuits because Internet and cloud traffic no longer needs to consume private WAN bandwidth back to a centralized egress point. DIA does not inherently reduce the physical latency of an Internet circuit, and it does not increase the provisioned circuit bandwidth. Zero-touch provisioning may accelerate site deployment, but that is a separate SD-WAN onboarding benefit rather than a specific benefit of deploying DIA at every site. Therefore, the two correct benefits are reduced latency to public cloud applications and reduced load on MPLS circuits.