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26th August 2009 - Link Blog

Introducing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Amazon now let you create a network of private EC2 instances completely isolated from the internet and the rest of the EC2 cloud, then link them back to your home network via a VPN.

Posted 26th August 2009 at 8:42 am

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