Introducing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

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by jeffbarr • 17 years ago

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kogir• 17 years ago

I got all excited thinking they had made something I could install in my own data center. While nifty, this still doesn't allow me to properly protect my data (whole disk encryption, etc). I want a self-hosted private cloud.

a-priori• 17 years ago

http://open.eucalyptus.com/

catch23• 17 years ago

And the competitor to this is a YC company, Virtualmin.

datums• 17 years ago

you can install xen on a couple of linux servers, create instances and have your private cloud.

Eucalyptus would be even better since it provide a AWS like api.

ephermata• 17 years ago

Wonder how this compares to skytap (www.skytap.com)?

mattjung3• 17 years ago

This feature is maybe the most important one since EC2 was launched. It makes cloud computing enterprise ready...

idlewords3• 17 years ago

Can you explain what you mean by 'enterprise ready'?

mattjung3• 17 years ago

It allows enterprises to easily and securely integrate servers that run in the cloud with their own internal infrastructure via a VPN. This fosters hybrid environments (internal IT + cloud in parallel) and thereby lowers the barriers for migrating IT services incrementally to cloud services. It takes away one of the most cited obstacles for the adoption of cloud computing in enterprise IT: security.

blasdel• 17 years ago

This seems like it's mostly aimed at the kind of corporate idiots that are obsessed with centralized firewalls and proxies and "application security firewalls", especially when they're packaged as a funny-colored 1U server with an awful web interface and a 100x markup.

It will be a great success.

akd• 17 years ago

Haha, the Redline EX3250 is an example of one of those 1U servers that can take a lot of load off your servers by doing all your SSL. It sold for $30,000 in 2003 - I bought one on EBay for $225 in 2007 and use it to run SSL for my site. It's amazing what people pay for "enterpriseyness."

idlewords3• 17 years ago

I wonder if this is an effort to make it easier for corporate IT departments to run experiments with EC2, in hopes of eventually luring large datacenters on to the service. It seems like it would be vastly easier to get political cover for trying out a VPN-only service unreachable from the internet than the regular EC2 infrastructure.

Introducing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

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