Amazon AWS announces support for IPSEC VPNs that don't require a BGP end device. Previously to create a VPN to Amazon AWS you needed a reasonably high-end router or firewall that supports BGP to connect to AWS's VPN. Most SMBs don't have a device that supports BGP.
Instead to establish a VPN you could use a product like Vyatta and VPN Cubed. We use Vyatta. It's a firewall that runs as an EC2 instance. Running as a firewall, you can establish a VPN between the Vyatta device and any IPSEC supported device, e.g. Cisco ASA or SonicWall.
Although Vyatta did a good job. There is a fee for the software, costs for running the EC2 instance, and the ongoing support costs for running the software.
Now that AWS supports IPSEC the VPN part of the puzzle is resolved. Now SMBs can securely and natively connect to AWS using there existing Firewalls.
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