VPN-Cubed IPsec to EC2 Announced

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CohesiveFT has always been about YOU our customer. All of our products and services have been built with one word in mind YOU. It's YOUR software stack, YOUR data center, YOUR cloud computing project, who are we to tell you how to run your business? Our most recent product release, VPN-Cubed IPsec to EC2 Edition, was brought to market with your interests in mind. We found that while many enterprises were extremely comfortable installing our VPN-Cubed Manager Virtual Appliances in their data centers, some were reluctant to install new software or didn't have the virtual infrastructure to support our VMs. To address this we have developed a new way for the enterprise to extend security and control to the cloud, VPN-Cubed IPsec to EC2 (Press Release).

VPN-Cubed IPsec to EC2 gives all the benefits of our VPN-Cubed cloud security and control but without the need for anything to be installed onsite, no software installations are needed. All that's required for setting up an IPsec connection with a VPN-Cubed overlay network inside of EC2 is just minimal firewall/router configuration. Start leveraging the cloud today with as little impact on YOUR home infrastructure as possible.

VPN-Cubed IPsec to EC2 Edition is a version of the VPN-Cubed overlay network packaged to work between a data center using IPsec “extranet” connectivity and Amazon EC2. Your IPsec device connects to an IPsec gateway at Amazon running as a virtual appliance which routes to your VPN-Cubed subnet in EC2. Once your controlled and encrypted communication tunnel between YOUR data centers and Amazon's EC2 is established, our VPN-Cubed overlay network provides 5 key capabilities Amazon does not currently allow you to control:

• static addressing for your EC2 devices,
• topology control by using VPN-Cubed managers as virtual switches, virtual bridges or virtual routers,
• use of popular enterprise protocols like UDP Multicast for service discovery,
• encrypted communications between all your devices in EC2,
• and lastly encrypted communications to EC2 using your existing extranet infrastructure.

Does My IPsec Device Work with VPN-Cubed?
While VPN-Cubed IPsec to EC2 does require interaction with us (it's not that bad, we're pretty cool people), we do offer a self service test. If you want determine if your IPsec device can connect with our VPN-Cubed gateways in Amazon's EC2, you can launch our VPN-Cubed IPsec to EC2 Test Gateway zero cost AMI. Just visit the Paid AMI page and purchase (offered at no additional fees beyond EC2 costs for compute usage and data transfer fees + a $0.30 monthly charge to cover Amazon's Monthly Transaction Fee). Follow our Configuration Instructions

1. Sign up for an Amazon EC2 account on their registration page
2. Follow Amazon's getting started instructions to install the needed tools, in particular the Prerequisites, Setting up an Account and Setting up the Tools pages
3. Purchase the VPN-Cubed IPsec to EC2 Test Gateway AMI.  You will be charged to your Amazon account.
4. Once you have the ec2 commands working use the EC2 API Tools command line to build your security groups. We provide detailed "cut/paste" instructions in the Configuration PDF.  Unfortunately ElasticFox and AWS Console can't handle some of the port settings.
   
5. Launch the AMI using, ElasticFox, AWS Management Console or the EC2 Command Line Tools (CMD Line Paid AMI Launch How To ) referencing the AMI ID ami-efc22486.
6. Launch the AMI and use the VPN-Cubed IPsec to EC2 Test Gateway UI to test connectivity between the VPN-Cubed overlay network in EC2 and your IPsec device (Explained in the Configuration PDF above)

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