Private clouds roughly equate to a normal on-premise datacentre. The new VPC is a virtual private network tunnel that corporations can use to tie their datacentres with Amazon's cloud services.

Amazon is going after hosting and virtual private server companies with its latest low-end cloud offering.

Dedicated instances are the basis for the AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) offering and are aimed at organizations that do not want to share public cloud resources with others.

Wanna extend your existing IT infrastructure to the cloud? Amazon can help. Amazon Web Services is today announcing the limited public beta of Virtual Private Cloud (aka Amazon VPC), a service ...