Did Amazon just nuke enterprise private clouds?

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Larry Dignan.

Amazon Web Services has included virtual private clouds into its EC2 instances in a move that may render the marketing pitches of a lot of hardware companies moot. At the very least, AWS threw a virtual curveball to its physical data center rivals.

In a blog post, AWS outlined that ever EC2 customer will have advanced networking and features included in its Virtual Private Cloud service. Earlier: Amazon dominates cloud infrastructure market – but new challengers emerging | Amazon to set up new EC2 customers on private cloud…

AWS noted:

To enable this, starting soon, instances for new AWS customers (and existing customers launching in new Regions) will be launched into the "EC2-VPC" platform. We are currently in the process of enabling this feature, one Region at a time, starting with the Asia Pacific (Sydney) and South America (São Paulo) Regions. We expect these roll-outs to occur over the next several weeks.
AWS has plenty of other details about how it’s combining VPCs and EC2, but the first ripple in the market will be felt immediately and revolve around messaging. As cloud computing has developed in the enterprise, there are roughly three camps that have emerged…

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