Amazon adds support for hybrid clouds
Ovum Plc
October 7, 2009 6 Pages - SKU: OV2497424
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| On the third anniversary of the launch of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), its second and main cloud computing offering after Amazon S3 in March 2006, Amazon Web Services (Amazon) bowed to customer demand and introduced Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to support a hybrid approach to cloud computing. The new offering is in beta and has limitations, but it is a good step in Amazon’s efforts to remain at the top of the cloud computing phenomenon.
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- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- In a Nutshell
- A multifaceted move
- A hybrid approach to the cloud that extends Amazon’s enterprise audience
- Virtual private clouds challenge actual private clouds
- Not yet for business applications
- Details and limitations
- IPSec VPN-centric offering
- User-defined subnets
- A limited but relatively cheap offering
- Reaching out to a limited number of AWS resources
- Security is key
- Both cloud users and providers
- VPN security backed by existing internal security resources
- Isolated from the Internet
- Amazon is unlikely to expand into private clouds for security’s sake
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