This is not an unexpected move by Amazon, but it comes
at a pretty bad time for its open source competitor OpenStack,
which had just this week started offering signups to start getting
access to the OpenStack service beginning on May 1. Rackspace,
OpenStack's primary commercial vendor, has maintained a strict
schedule on how it wants to roll out the OpenStack-based Cloud
Servers and Cloud Control, and it is clear that AWS and its partner
vendors (like Eucalyptus, which just yesterday picked up $30
million in another round of VC funding) are positioning themselves
to take advantage of OpenStack's cautious journey to
market.
