CENIC, in partnership with Internet2 NET+
Services, will extend its unique purchasing program for Amazon Web Services, to
faculty, staff, and students at participating research and education
institutions nationwide by Fall 2012.
Arlington, VA—April
24, 2012—Internet2, the world's most advanced networking consortium, today
announced that together with CENIC, California's advanced networking
consortium, they will now offer a new purchasing program for Amazon Web
Services (AWS) to make it easier for research and education community
institutions to take advantage of the AWS cloud. This new program will provide
a community-friendly self-service portal created and managed by AWS solution
provider, Datapipe; discounts on eligible AWS services; and expanded payment
options that include invoicing and grant-friendly pre-payment services, as well
as traditional credit card payment services.
"This new
approach to facilitating ease of access while aggregating usage of Amazon Web
Services within our R&E community represents the next of many steps we plan
to take in streamlining access and lowering costs for use of these increasingly
important cloud compute and storage resources," said Louis Fox, President
and CEO of CENIC. "CENIC is delighted to be an Internet2 NET+
provider in collaboration with Datapipe and AWS to introduce this new approach
to our K-20 R&E community."
"Amazon Web
Services has been a valuable tool for us at California State University Channel
Islands. We've replaced instructional and research servers for faculty, created
online environments for students, extended our on-campus storage facilities,
and even brought up an experimental voice switch. AWS is flexible, versatile,
fast, easy to use, and cost-effective. We're thrilled that the new program
between Internet2, CENIC, and Amazon will make it even easier for us to procure
and use these essential services," stated A. Michael Berman, Vice
President for Technology & Communication California State University
Channel Islands.
"Datapipe's
Managed Cloud for Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a one-of-a-kind managed services
offering that provides the flexibility, scalability, and power of the AWS cloud
platform," noted Robb Allen, CEO of Datapipe. "This CENIC-Internet2
program demonstrates how Datapipe delivers innovative new solutions for cloud
governance and enablement."
All Amazon Web Services
will be available, with the following services eligible for the discount
program:
- Application Services:
- Amazon CloudSearch
- Amazon Simple Workflow
Service (SWF)
- Amazon Simple Queue
Service (SQS)
- Amazon Simple
Notification Service (SNS)
- Amazon Simple Email
Service (SES)
- Compute:
- Amazon Elastic Computer
Cloud (EC2)
- Amazon elastic
MapReduce
- Auto Scaling
- Elastic Load Balancing
- Content Delivery:
- Amazon CloudFront
- Database:
- Amazon Relational
Database Service (RDS)
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon SimpleDB
- Amazon ElastiCache
- Deployment &
Management:
- AWS Identity and Access
Management (IAM)
- Amazon CloudWatch
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- Networking:
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon Virtual Private
Cloud (VPC)
- AWS Direct Connect
- Storage:
- Amazon simple Storage
Services (S3)
- Amazon Elastic Book
Store (EBS)
- AWS Import/Export
- AWS Storage Gateway
- Support:
- AWS Premium Support
- Web Traffic:
- Alexa Web Information
Service
- Alexa Top Sites
Research and education
institutions interested in participating in this purchasing program for Amazon
Web Services will be able to sign up through CENIC.
This initiative
signals the next step in CENIC's relationship with AWS, which began with the
establishment of a trial 10-Gigabit peering between CENIC and AWS in November
of 2009. This trial gave CENIC the opportunity to study the benefits that
a high-speed connection to AWS brought to CENIC's members.
About CENIC - www.cenic.org
California's education and research communities leverage their networking
resources under CENIC, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in
California, in order to obtain cost-effective, high-bandwidth networking to
support their missions and answer the needs of their faculty, staff, and
students.
CENIC designs,
implements, and operates CalREN, the California Research and Education Network,
a high-bandwidth, high-capacity Internet network specially designed to meet the
unique requirements of these communities, and to which the vast majority of the
state's K-20 educational institutions are connected. In order to facilitate
collaboration in education and research, CENIC also provides connectivity to
non-California institutions and industry research organizations with which
CENIC's Associate researchers and educators are engaged.
About Internet2 - www.internet2.edu
Internet2® is a member-owned advanced technology community founded by the
nation's leading higher education institutions in 1996. Internet2 provides a
collaborative environment for U.S. research and education organizations to
solve common technology challenges, and to develop innovative solutions in
support of their educational, research, and community service missions. For
more information, visit www.internet2.edu.
About Datapipe Managed Hosting - www.datapipe.com
Datapipe offers a single provider solution for managing and securing
mission-critical IT services, including cloud computing, infrastructure as a
service, platform as a service, colocation and data centers. Datapipe delivers
those services from the world’s most influential technical and financial
markets including New York metro, Silicon Valley, London, Hong Kong and
Shanghai. For more information about Datapipe visit www.datapipe.com
or call (888) 749-5821.
About Amazon Web Services -
aws.amazon.com
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure
services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud
computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to
leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into
variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other
IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take
advantage of Amazon's expertise and economies of scale to access resources when
their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost.
Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost
infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of
enterprise, government and startup customers businesses in 190 countries around
the world. AWS offers over 28 different services, including Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). AWS services are available to
customers from data center locations in the U.S., Brazil, Europe, Japan and
Singapore.
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