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Amazon Doesn’t Need to Innovate, Just Participate This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

  • Sunday, August 30, 2009

Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud is not technically private and it lacks important features, but Amazon reaps rewards just by getting into the game.

When the 800-pound gorilla moves, people notice. In a week that brought a new partner portal program for the Rackspace Cloud and an entirely new cloud from SaaS-platform king OpSource, all anybody wants to discuss is Amazon Web Services’ newly announced Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service. I have read more than a dozen posts on the topic, with takes ranging from “VPC is everything and more” to “Amazon VPC is a terrible virtual private cloud [...]

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