EC2 and private clouds August 26, 2009
Posted by James Webster in : web, virtualization , trackbackAmazon have just announced the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud:
Amazon VPC lets you create your own logically isolated set of Amazon EC2 instances and connect it to your existing network using an IPsec VPN connection.
I am sure that cohesiveFT’s salespeople would say otherwise, but this looks awfully like their VPN-Cubed solution which itself runs on EC2. A small ecosystem of start-ups has sprouted up around Amazon’s web services; RightScale, cohesiveFT, Eucalyptus, Enomaly, Scalr; many of them providing enhancements to EC2’s initially sparse feature set with regard to management and scaling. However Amazon have demonstrated that they are increasingly interested in providing this value-add themselves and charging for it rather than just providing the base platform; look at the introduction of CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing and now the Virtual Private Cloud.
The life of an EC2-based startup is clearly becoming riskier but do Amazon themselves risk alienation from the software development community through this policy of subsuming their ecosystem’s functionality?
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