Hey Amazon: Where’s your private cloud?

Grazed from Network World.  Author: Brandon Butler.

The public cloud computing market is becoming increasingly competitive with new entrants focusing on hybrid offerings that combine public and private clouds. That’s leaving some asking the market-leading public cloud provider, Amazon Web Services, where its private cloud offering is.

The question was posed to Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels at GigaOm Structure last month and Vogels didn’t give any indication of plans to offer customers a way to run Amazon-style clouds on their premises behind their own firewalls. Instead, he says the company offers a variety of ways for customers to build private-like cloud on Amazon’s infrastructure. Also, acknowledging that customers will not abandon their own resources, Amazon has built ways to connect existing on-premises systems with its public cloud. “We’ve been doing quite a bit for people looking for that model,” Vogels said.For example, the company has tools like:..

• Direct Connect, which allows customers to build dedicated 10 gigabit connections between their on-premises resources and the public cloud.
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), which enables a section of Amazon’s cloud to be cordoned off to be used just for a single user.
• Storage Gateway, which is Amazon software that can be run in storage blocks on customer premises and that automatically backs them up to the cloud.
• Amazon Workflow Engine, which has the ability to automate certain tasks on-premises and in the cloud.
• Identity and Access management supports integration with LDAP and Active Directory…

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