Amazon Web Services
LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company, 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.
AWS 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.
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.”
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.
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