"In conjunction with Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront in the EU, Amazon Web Services customers can now locate their storage, distribution, and compute in Europe, better allowing them to achieve low latency to their European customers and to meet EU data storage requirements when applicable," said Peter De Santis, General Manager of Amazon EC2 as Amazon.com today announced that it has extended Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to Europe.

"We are very excited to fulfill one of our top user requests by launching Amazon EC2 in Europe," De Santis added.

"For the last two years CohesiveFT has been working to help European customers leverage the power of Amazon Web Services," said Alexis Richardson, Co-founder and Director of Business Development at CohesiveFT. "The launch of Amazon EC2 services in Europe sets the stage for an exciting new wave of production deployments with reduced latency, expanded regulatory compliance options, and the ability to deploy scale-up/scale-out architectures within the region," he continued.

European developers and businesses can now run their Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones in the EU to help achieve lower latency, operate closer to other resources like Amazon S3 in the EU, and meet EU data storage requirements when applicable, De Santis explained.

"The new European Region for Amazon EC2 contains two Availability Zones enabling developers to easily and cost effectively run fault-tolerant applications with the same scalability, reliability and cost efficiency achieved with Amazon EC2 in the U.S.," he noted.

Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new virtual server instances to minutes, claims the company, allowing developers to scale capacity, both up and down, as computing requirements change. This enables businesses to reduce capital expense and pay for resources as they are consumed. Developers worldwide, Amazon reminds, can begin using Amazon EC2 and other AWS infrastructure services by going to http://aws.amazon.com.

Cloud Computing Technology Contributors of 2009
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Virtualization Technology Contributors of 2009
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AJAX & RIA Technology Contributors of 2009
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