Amazon VPC now available in multiple Availability Zones in all AWS
regions worldwide, and AWS Direct Connect launched to enable private
network connections between enterprises and the AWS cloud
SEATTLE, Aug 04, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company, (NASDAQ:AMZN),
today announced new capabilities for customers designed to support the
security, network management, dedicated connectivity, and identity
management requirements of enterprises when deploying mission-critical
applications in the cloud.
AWS has extended Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to all AWS
Regions, allowing enterprises to launch their Amazon VPC environments in
the US East and West Coasts, Europe, Singapore, and Tokyo, and in
multiple AWS Availability Zones within each Region. Amazon VPC enables
businesses to provision a private section of AWS, where they can then
launch AWS resources in a virtual network that they define and control,
including selection of IP address range, creation of subnets, and
configuration of route tables and network gateways. This gives
enterprises a simple and seamless way to leverage AWS while using the
same security and management controls already familiar to their
business. Enterprises can connect to their Amazon VPC via a Virtual
Private Network (VPN) or through an Internet connection. Starting today,
enterprises can now also connect multiple networks, such as branch
offices, to each other as well as to their central corporate Amazon VPC
environment. To get started using Amazon VPC, visit http://aws.amazon.com/vpc/.
AWS today also announced AWS Direct Connect, a new service that enables
enterprises to bypass the Internet and deliver data to and from AWS via
a private network connection. With a private connection, enterprises can
increase bandwidth throughput, reduce networking latency and costs, and
provide a more consistent network experience when moving data between
AWS and their datacenters. AWS's pay-as-you-go pricing with no minimum
commitment means enterprises pay only for the network ports used and the
data transferred out from AWS over the connection; data transfer into
AWS is free of charge. AWS Direct Connect is available today in
Virginia, and from this location customers can connect to services in
the AWS US-East (Virginia) Region. Additional AWS Direct Connect
locations are planned for San Francisco Bay Area (San Jose), Los
Angeles, London, Tokyo and Singapore in the next several months. To get
started using AWS Direct Connect, visit http://aws.amazon.com/directconnect.
AWS has also added new functionality for AWS Identity and Access
Management (AWS IAM) that enables "identity federation," or the ability
for enterprises to use their existing corporate identities to grant
secure and direct access to AWS resources without creating a new AWS
identity for those users. This capability enables enterprises to
programmatically request security credentials, with configurable
expiration and permissions, that grant their corporate identities access
to AWS resources controlled by that enterprise. To get started using
identity federation in AWS IAM, visit http://aws.amazon.com/iam/.
Amazon VPC and AWS Identity and Access Management can be accessed via
the AWS Management Console with console support for AWS Direct Connect
coming later this year. To learn more about AWS resources for the
enterprise, visit: http://aws.amazon.com/enterprise/.
"As the largest hotel company in the world with hotels in over 100
countries, our business requires us to operate with a global mindset,"
said Scott Johnson, Vice President of Enterprise Engineering,
InterContinental Hotel Group. "By making Amazon VPC available in all AWS
Regions and in multiple Availability Zones, we gain even more
flexibility to deploy our applications in the cloud as we target markets
around the world. With AWS Direct Connect, we can quickly migrate data
to and from AWS with predictable low latency and high throughput, while
avoiding expensive Internet bandwidth charges."
"By constantly releasing new services tailored for the global
enterprise, AWS enables us to move more of our business into the cloud,"
said John Herbert, Executive Vice President and CIO, Twentieth Century
Fox. "For example, we currently use Amazon VPC for Intellectual Property
and data, and the ability to put our Amazon VPC environments closer to
both end-point and origin will give us enormous advantages in how we
distribute data and assets worldwide, supporting our global footprint.
AWS IAM has given us the confidence to better manage our risk in these
environments with greater granularity. Additionally, we look forward to
extending our enterprise capabilities with AWS Direct Connect, so that
AWS can really be the 'cost-avoidance, virtual data center' in our
future."
"As part of our business continuity planning, Haven Power wanted to
consider innovative cloud-based solutions. We engaged Smart421, an AWS
solution provider, to propose a cloud architecture that would meet our
disaster recovery and back-up requirements, and we adopted their
recommendation to use Amazon VPC as part of our overall solution," said
Paul Armstrong, Business Systems Manager, Haven Power Ltd (part of the
Drax Group), a UK-based electricity retailer. "This allows us to mirror
and extend our existing internal datacenter into the AWS cloud while
retaining control of subnets, IP ranges and network security, and at the
same time benefit from the inherent scalability, flexibility and
consumption-based charging model that AWS provides."
"As enterprises make the move to the cloud, many have leveraged Amazon
VPC for workloads that they've wanted to manage using their existing
management and security policies. With today's launch of Amazon VPC
worldwide, AWS Direct Connect and the new IAM federated identity
capabilities, enterprises have even more flexibility and control over
deploying their workloads to the cloud," said Adam Selipsky, Vice
President, Amazon Web Services. "These capabilities provide even more
privacy, and along with AWS's existing cloud services allow enterprises
to choose the environment that is best suited to each of their
workloads."
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