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fatman1683
Jan 8, 2004
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Bhodi posted:

Knowing my luck, it'll be "Hey, people keep wanting to deploy stuff onto Amazon but we don't want to, what's it going to cost to bring up an internal Amazon?"

With "Amazon" used as the product, exactly like that.

Typically when people think 'Cloud' and 'Amazon' in the same thought, what they're actually thinking about is EC2. OpenStack is pretty much the only serious on-premise competitor to EC2 (and much of the rest of Amazon's suite), since as far as I'm aware it's the only one that is being widely operated at scale. You're not going to have a very fun time trying to replace OpenStack or EC2 with vCloud or Azure, which are nowhere near as mature.

However there are lots of 'intermediate' applications where you don't need a fully scalable cloud stack, and platforms like vCloud and Azure are pretty popular with businesses that already have significant investments in VMware or Microsoft, respectively.

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