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A few days ago I blogged about how VMware is going to do a huge push into “private clouds” around the VMware 2009 conference. But little did we know that Amazon had something up its sleeve as well. It has announced it today. AWS now supports creation of Virtual Private Cloud with private address space (including RFC 1918) which could be locked down by a VPN connection to only your organization only. You still get most of the benefit of Amazons cheap hardware pricing but you get to lock down the infrastructure for security reasons. Regardless of how you see it, this is huge for IT and the developer community. Some may love it, and I’m sure some will be pretty angry at Amazon for trying to commodities security and making it look as if network security was as simple as that. With VMware’s announcements next week, there is no doubt in my mind that the next one year at least there will be a significant push towards “private clouds”.