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Amazon Web Services brings Virtual Private Cloud to Europe

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The Old Country gets Amazon's private cloud
Amazon Web Services is rolling out its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service in the EU after a U.S. public beta that saw many tweaks to the

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offering. Amazon's VPC mimics the traditional VPN connection hosters and colocation facilities offer to their customers. It provides a secure channel for accessing IT environments. A hoster's VPN provides access to a discrete group of computers that aren't otherwise available from the Internet.

VPC claims to do the same, but, of course, all of Amazon's cloud computers are always online; that's the point. You'll have to trust Amazon to properly fence off your special little part of its cloud for you.

Apparently, many are willing to do that. AWS reports enthusiasm and growing use. Opening the service in the EU will reassure AWS users concerned that their computing resources do not travel outside the EU for legal reasons -- the EU's privacy and surveillance laws are much more protective than the U.S.

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