Amazon Web Services, which launched its
first product (Simple Storage Service) five years ago this month, revealed
March 15 that it has redesigned the access to its Virtual Private Cloud
service.
Users now can set up their own virtual networks within the Amazon cloud that
they can control just as they control their own physical data center networks.
Amazon VPC now lets users specify which of their Amazon VPC resources they
want to make directly accessible from their Internet connection and which they
would like to maintain behind their firewalls.
Previously, Amazon Elastic Cloud (EC2) users would provision a private
section of the AWS cloud and launch AWS resources into it that were only
accessible via a virtual private network (VPN) connection to a physical
enterprise data center.
As a result, Amazon VPC was not directly accessible. Because VPNs in general
are notorious for connectivity problems, interruptions in services were all too
common. Starting on March 15, enterprises will no longer require a VPN or
existing infrastructure resources in order to use the Amazon VPC, the
Seattle-based company said.
For more, read the eWEEK article: Amazon Enables Cloud Services to Act More Physical.