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Amazon to Ease Private Cloud Adoption with New CloudFormation Templates

In today’s more distributed, cloud-based and mobile world of computing, a range of previous standards has been forever altered. For example, cloud-based services and Web messaging solutions, such as Google (News - Alert) Gmail, have transformed how organizations and users view email. While individual users have flocked to cloud service solutions, for large enterprises it has not been a simple transition. Compatibility issues, security, data retention, and compliance are just some of the roadblocks large organizations face. Now, Amazon has sought to ameliorate the problems and capitalize on this trend by easing private cloud creation with its recent Web Services release.

Amazon understands that to make the cloud appealing to large enterprises, it must generate a wave of devotees and converts at all levels. To achieve this, Amazon’s CloudFormation templates let IT developers create isolated cloud resources. Customers can automatically create stacks of resources and populate an entire Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using a single CloudFormation template. Amazon Web Services (News - Alert) first offered cloud-based services in 2006. It has already gained significant adoptions from small to mid-sized businesses that have chosen to create their data centers in the cloud, capitalizing on scalability. 

However, the push toward key offering applications, resources and software products as SaaS (News - Alert) (Software as a Service), are key elements to customer satisfaction, brand allegiance, and successful cloud computing experiences. Amazon has identified the need for private, and hybrid cloud, capabilities as a key ingredient that would attract large enterprises to its cloud service.

This enables companies of any size to achieve greater measures of business agility and cost effectiveness. It also offers a range of advantages for transforming an IT department from a source of expense to a tool for greater corporate profit because of both the speed and ease with which cloud resources can be made available. According to Amazon, with CloudFormation, users don't have to figure out the order in which AWS services need to be provisioned or how to make dependencies between them work. As users have done in the past, they can launch resources in a virtual network defined by themselves, including public subnets, private subnets, and hardware VPN access. To help developers and systems administrators get going, Amazon has created two sample templates to show how they are constructed. There is no additional charge for using CloudFormation or Virtual Private Cloud, according to Amazon

Edited by Carrie Schmelkin

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