Amazon Introduces Virtual Private Cloud and legitimizes Private Clouds

Amazon introduces Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) and with that stroke, completely legitimizes private clouds.

The Amazon Link for the same: http://aws.amazon.com/vpc

AWS blog post: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/08/introducing-amazon-virtual-private-cloud-vpc.html

In a blog post, the Amazon CTO Werner Vogels rationalizes this imperative decision by pointing out the essential properties of a cloud:

• Eliminates Cost. The cloud changes capital expense to variable expense and lowers operating costs. The utility-based pricing model of the cloud combined with its on-demand access to resources eliminates the needs for capital investments in IT Infrastructure. And because resources can be released when no longer needed, effective utilization rises dramatically and our customers see a significant reduction in operational costs.
• Is Elastic. The ready access to vast cloud resources eliminates the need for complex procurement cycles, improving the time-to-market for its users. Many organizations have deployment cycles that are counted in
  weeks or months, while cloud resources such as Amazon EC2 only take minutes to deploy. The scalability of the cloud no longer forces designers and architects to think in resource-constrained ways and they can now pursue opportunities without having to worry how to grow their infrastructure if their product becomes successful.
• Removes Undifferentiated “Heavy Lifting.” The cloud let its users focus on delivering differentiating business value instead of wasting valuable resources on the undifferentiated heavy lifting that makes up most of IT infrastructure. Over time Amazon has invested over $2B in developing technologies that could deliver security, reliability and performance at tremendous scale and at low cost. Our teams have created a culture of operational excellence that power some of the world’s largest distributed systems. All of this expertise is instantly available to customers through the AWS services.

Read Vogel’s blog post in full: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2009/08/amazon_virtual_private_cloud.html

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