SEATTLE, May 04, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) --Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that it has launched Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) in the European Union (EU). Amazon VPC is a secure and seamless bridge between a company's existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPC enables enterprises to connect their existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and to extend their existing management capabilities such as security services, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to include their AWS resources. Customers deploying Amazon VPC in the EU region can now operate more closely to their existing IT infrastructures in the EU. As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no long-term contracts, minimum spend or up-front investments required and users pay only for the resources used. To get started using Amazon VPC, visit http://aws.amazon.com/.
"Since the launch of Amazon VPC in the U.S. last fall, European customers have been requesting this same capability in Europe," said Adam Selipsky, Vice President of Amazon Web Services. We're excited to announce Amazon VPC's arrival in Europe as it gives enterprises the attractive combination of being able to further isolate their AWS resources, use all the same security and management tools they normally use, yet still take advantage of the most powerful benefits of the cloud."
Amazon VPC enables AWS customers to create an isolated set of AWS resources that they then access via an industry-standard encrypted IPsec Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection. Using a few simple API calls, users create their isolated network, specify the IP address range of their own choosing, and then launch Amazon EC2 instances into that network. Next, users create a secure VPN to bridge those AWS resources to their existing IT infrastructure. Cloud traffic bound for the Internet routes over the VPN where it is examined by the customer's existing security and networking technologies before heading to the public Internet. With Amazon VPC, customers can access their resources running in the AWS cloud as if these assets were running within their existing IT infrastructure.
Software AG currently leverages AWS as a SaaS platform for its ARISalign social Business Productivity Management (BPM) solution, making BPM accessible to everyone in the enterprise. "Software AG selected AWS for its secure, reliable, and scalable technology infrastructure platform in the cloud," said Matt Green, Vice President of Product Management & Product Marketing. "We're pleased to see Amazon VPC launch in the EU as it will enable Software AG to deliver an environment in which our customers can be assured ease of management and seamless extensibility to existing on-premise security tools."
Ebiquity, a large media and marketing firm in the UK, has looked forward to the launch of Amazon VPC in the EU. "Ebiquity takes data security very seriously and we use many tools and services internally to ensure our data is protected," said Glen Robinson, Head of Information Technology at Ebiquity. Until now we have had to setup static services to provide a VPN service from our sites into the cloud. We have been anticipating the arrival of Amazon VPC in the EU for some time and are excited to extend our current security network and protocols into the AWS environment."
About Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Amazon EC2's simple web service interface allows businesses to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon's proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel; Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial.
Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront.
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