By Simon Gallagher

VPN connectivity and private networking within EC2 are now available, this is great news – I mused on the possibilities of this sort of thing previously in this post.

This is a key step to gaining corporate acceptance, and proves that there is definitely still a use case and demand for a private cloud,

This new offering provides better opportunities for integrating internal systems with large-scale commodity service from people like Amazon, extending your own address space into EC2 opens up interesting opportunities for selective offloading and “cloud-bursting” of services as well as DR.

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