Patent attributes
Technology is described for detecting a presence of a hardware assisted overlay network. An agent running on a host in a service provider environment may receive an assistance identifier that is assigned to a gateway associated with the host in the service provider environment. The agent running on the host may determine that the host is running in a hardware assisted overlay network operating in the service provider environment using the assistance identifier of the gateway. The agent running on the host may initiate a hardware assisted function that uses hardware resources accessible to the hardware assisted overlay network.