Amazon Annouces Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Service
Amazon Web Services has just made Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) available for a limited beta release. Amazon VPC provides a smooth link between the Amazon Web Services cloud and your current IT hardware. You can now connect your present infrastructure to AWS resources protected by the Virtual Firewall Network, and can extend security, firewalls, and intruder detection to work with your AWS resources. Amazon VPC is already designed to interface with the resources of Amazon EC2, and will soon be able to work with other suites from Amazon Web Services.
The Isolated Network Access will allow you to track traffic to and from your VPC through use of your existing security systems in coordination with the IP address range you supply. It will do this by sending network traffic through an IPsec VPN.
One benefit of this service is flexibility. VPC is controlled with the use of concepts like gateways and subnets and allows you to define your own criteria. You can decide who you want to allow access to AWS cloud as well as what IP addresses will work with Amazon EC2.
Amazon VPC allows you to maximize your current IT resources and use isolated resources from Amazon Web Service’s cloud computing infrastructure. You can now take advantage of the best of both systems, with a system as isolated and secure as if it were entirely on your property and elastic enough to handle any of your computing needs without having to maintain the data installation and hardware. You simply have to pay for the resources that you actually use, with Amazon’s pay-as-you-go price scheme. Amazon VPC allows you to move as much or as little of your data center into the cloud as you feel comfortable with.
