COGHEAD BRINGS ITS WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM TO AMAZON’S ELASTIC COMPUTE CLOUD

Developers and Customers Benefit from Security, Reliability, and Scale of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and S3 Storage Facility

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Jan. 14, 2008 - Coghead today announced it is bringing its do-it-yourself web application development platform to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and S3 Storage Facility. Amazon will host the Coghead system, providing a state-of-the-art infrastructure to support the growing base of Coghead developers and customers. In addition, the Coghead platform now provides a simple and powerful development environment for customers of Amazon’s EC2 and S3.

With Amazon, Coghead is able to scale rapidly to meet demand and adjust capacity instantly to address peak loads, while also making it easier for any developer to build applications that leverage EC2 and S3. Coghead’s move to the Amazon environment supports the continued expansion of the Coghead web application service with the release of the next version of the platform (announced today). Amazon has spent 11 years and over $2 billion building the infrastructure, technical knowledge, and operational excellence to operate a world class web-scale hosting infrastructure. Amazon Web Services provide Coghead with a reliable, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure.

“Our passion is to provide a massively scalable, highly reliable and secure application platform that a broad class of developers can use to efficiently build and deliver web applications that solve specific business problems,” said Coghead CEO, Paul McNamara. “With Amazon, we can take advantage of their unmatched expertise in building high reliability, web-scale data centers, and provide the infrastructure we need to rapidly scale the Coghead service to meet the demands of our ever-expanding roster of developers.”

Currently, more than 25,000 do-it-yourselfers have registered to use Coghead’s online application platform to create business applications and entrepreneurial opportunities. An intuitive, drag-and-drop interface makes it easy and fast to build sophisticated, robust business applications – from managing sales pipelines to tracking supplies for restaurants – without any coding. The web-based services are developed and delivered using Coghead’s all-in-one platform, resulting in a radical reduction in the time and expense normally required to develop and deliver business applications that scale on-demand.

About Coghead

Coghead provides a radically new way for tech-savvy businesspeople to create, manage, and deploy their own web-based applications. The Coghead service enables the users closest to a business challenge to create customized solutions in hours or days at a fraction of the cost of large packaged applications or custom development projects. Founded in May 2003 and funded by American Capital, El Dorado Ventures, and SAP, Coghead is staffed by industry veterans, serial entrepreneurs, and some of the brightest minds in software. For more information, visit the company’s web site at http://www.coghead.com/ and the company’s blog at http://blog.coghead.com/.

About Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides technology services that give businesses access to Amazon's own-back technology infrastructure that they can use to enable virtually any type of business. These in-the-cloud web services make it possible for any business to reach the scale of major internet players such as Amazon.com, but without the expensive price tag these companies must pay to build and maintain such reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure. Businesses can use AWS to achieve this level of web scale with zero up-front investment and low, pay-as-you-go pricing. More than 290,000 developers have signed up to use AWS since its inception. Amazon Web Services LLC is an Amazon.com company. More information is available at http://aws.amazon.com