Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

If you are interested in cloud computing, but you never known how to adopt this new paradigm in your shop due to ignorance 😉 I encourage you to look at the Amazon EC2 and related services.

One of the things that have kept me and properly many others from migrating our applications and services to the cloud has been due to the nature of most software requiring integration to legacy systems behind a company firewall.

Amazon’s new service – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud enables you to extend the company’s network to Amazon’s cloud via a secure VPN connection.

Read more about this new service from Amazon on Werner Vogels’ article Seamlessly Extending the Data Center – Introducing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud.