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Bernard Golden

Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud: What’s New, What’s Next

Table of Contents

  1. Summary
  2. Technology Description Header
  3. Implications
    1. Increases security of AWS
    2. Integrates cloud computing into established compute environments
    3. Enables application integration with cloud environments
  4. What to look for next
    1. Performance
    2. Permanent subnet address assignment
    3. Overall enterprise acceptance
  5. Competitive Implications
  6. About Bernard Golden

1. Summary

On Aug. 26, 2009, Amazon announced a new initiative: the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), which it describes as follows:

“a secure and seamless bridge between your existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPC enables you to connect your existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and to extend your existing management capabilities such as security services, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to include your AWS resources.”

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