Elastic Server Now Deploying to Amazon EC2 in Europe

Today, Amazon announced the ability to launch Amazon EC2 instances in multiple geographically distinct regions, specifically in the USA or Europe. The CohesiveFT corps of engineers have been busy integrating this new feature into Elastic Server, our web-based "factory" for assembling custom virtual servers. We are happy to announce that the new EU region is available as a simple "point-and-click" deployment option.

EC2 availability zones
Each Amazon EC2 region is completely independent and contains Availability Zones for establishing fault tolerance within the region. This approach achieves the greatest possible failure independence and stability, and it makes the locality of each EC2 resource unambiguous. For users of CohesiveFT's Elastic Server platform, region selection is as simple as a drop-down menu. Read more about our support for Amazon EC2.

Individual developers and small teams
Elastic Server is the fastest way to put your stack in the cloud. Developers and small teams can launch instances in multiple geographically distinct regions including the U.S. and now Europe. Our Community Edition is free to use and is well-suited for quick development and testing. Elastic Server Personal Edition is great if you want to increase usage from development or QA to production. This edition supports multiple Amazon EC2 sizes (L, XL and high-CPU instances).

The most common workflow for assembling an Elastic Server is to navigate to one of our portal sites (e.g. Rails, Django, LAMP, etc.). Later in the workflow, you'll have the option to add more components using the Bundle Explorer.

You can maintain your own components in a private repository and package your own bundles using our Bring Your Own feature (e.g. add projects from Github or elsewhere.) Check out how Alan Williamson quickly built a portal for deploying Open BlueDragon to the cloud. Don't have time to assemble your own stack? Check out the growing library of popular community templates and servers for quick download. Sound cool? Get started now.

Enterprise IT professionals
CohesiveFT offers services for deploying clusters of servers to the cloud. Our support for Amazon EC2 in Europe addresses common requests including reduced latency, geographic control, local billing, and local compliance. Our "Cubed" family of packaged services includes VPN-Cubed, the customer-controlled overlay network that enhances security and data encryption by bridging EC2 Europe and EC2 USA back to your Enterprise data center. These services help reduce the risk of exposing data assets to the cloud.

Another capability VPN-Cubed boasts is cross-cloud failover between different clouds (e.g. Amazon and Flexiscale). Our combination of software and services can be customized for an Enterprise's unique topology, providing redundancy, failover and scalability during critical transitions or seasonal spikes. Now, with our support for Amazon EC2 in multiple regions, we can help our Enterprise customers create one logical network between their EC2 instances running in the Amazon regions. Customers can enforce static addressing, encrypted communications and even multicast protocols.

Visit our website for more detailed information about VPN-Cubed including a technical overview explaining the difference between a regular VPN or tunnel and our cloud VPN solution. Questions? Please contact us directly at sales(at)cohesiveft.com.