End-to-end data packets flow control through an overlay environment of a wide area network

End-to-end data packet flow control is described for an overlay environment of a wide area network. A method includes detecting an active session of a specific application with a source node and a destination node within an overlay environment, detecting a traffic flow from the source node to the destination node associated with the active session, mapping the traffic flow to a dedicated service processing thread of a network services appliance, mapping an identifier to the dedicated service processing thread, and forwarding the traffic flow to the destination node through the dedicated service processing thread by applying the identifier to the traffic flow.