Amazon Web Services, which launched its first product (Simple Storage Service) five years ago this month, has revealed a redesign to its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service access. 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 centre 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 from 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 centre.
Enterprises now can define a virtual network topology in Amazon VPC that resembles a traditional network that they might operate in their own data centre, the company said. Users will have complete control over the virtual networking environment, including selection of IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways.
Users can customise the network configuration for Amazon VPC, for example, by creating a public-facing subnet for Web servers that have access to the Internet and placing back-end systems (such as databases or application servers) in a private-facing subnet with no Internet access.
If they choose, enterprises still can connect Amazon VPC to their own existing IT infrastructure with an encrypted VPN connection.
Specifically, Amazon VPC now enables enterprises to:
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