Tip: the actual announcement is at the end. The rest is a fluff piece on cloud computing. Basically, this VPC business seems like a VPN on top of EC2 - which i

Tip: the actual announcement is at the end. The rest is a fluff piece on cloud computing. Basically, this VPC business seems like a VPN on top of EC2 - which is nice, but surely can already be largely achieved by installing something like OpenVPN. The only extra I see is the ability to firewall off your own cloud servers effectively (assuming Amazon's firewall is reliable - which I guess it is).