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    Amazon Web Services Upgrades Virtual Private Cloud With Internet Access

    Leena Rao

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    Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

    Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
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    In 2009, Amazon launched the Virtual Private Cloud (also known as Amazon VPC), which makes it possible for customers to create their own isolated set of Amazon EC2 instances to connect to their existing network over a secured VPN connection to a datacenter. This promises enterprise-level security. Today, Amazon Web Services is extended the functionality of VPC, allowing users to make their VPC directly accessible to the internet (bypassing the need for a VPN).

    Users can actually specify which of their Amazon VPC resources they wish to make directly accessible to the Internet and which they do not. Customers have more control over the virtual networking environment, including selection of IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways.

    Part of today’s upgrade offers more customization for VPC users. Enterprise users can create a public-facing subnet for web servers that have access to the Internet, and placing backend systems such as databases or application servers in a private-facing subnet with no Internet access (and a VPN connection).

    Users can also store data in storage device Amazon S3 and set permissions so the data can only be accessed from within Amazon VPC or attach an Amazon Elastic IP Address to any Amazon VPC instance so it can be reached directly from the Internet.

    Essentially this gives enterprises more flexibility with making private clouds either more accessible or private. As companies become comfortable with a more public facing cloud, it makes sense to give users options with their data security.

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    Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services–gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them. With AWS you have the flexibility to choose whichever development platform or programming model makes the most sense for the problems you’re trying to solve. You pay only for what you use,...

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