Comments on: Is Amazon’s VPC a Game-Changer? http://www.jackofallclouds.com/2009/08/is-amazons-vpc-a-game-changer/ Cloud Computing analysis and commentary from Guy Rosen Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:54:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Shalom Carmel http://www.jackofallclouds.com/2009/08/is-amazons-vpc-a-game-changer/comment-page-1/#comment-161 Shalom Carmel Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:58:37 +0000 http://www.jackofallclouds.com/?p=201#comment-161 > Extending your network into the cloud with a VPN and securing your instances from any external network access was not impossible – it just required some work. I think that for many enterprises the technical expertise and the effort of deployment meant not "some work", but a quantum leap. True, it will take a while for the VPC offering to seep through corporate thought filters, but once it gets there it will be firmly embedded as a viable option. The bigger obstacle to enterprise adoption is the risk paranoia, fueled lately by the study that revealed potential cloud leakage http://people.csail.mit.edu/tromer/cloudsec/ > Extending your network into the cloud with a VPN and securing your instances from any external network access was not impossible – it just required some work.

I think that for many enterprises the technical expertise and the effort of deployment meant not “some work”, but a quantum leap. True, it will take a while for the VPC offering to seep through corporate thought filters, but once it gets there it will be firmly embedded as a viable option.

The bigger obstacle to enterprise adoption is the risk paranoia, fueled lately by the study that revealed potential cloud leakage http://people.csail.mit.edu/tromer/cloudsec/

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