Open-Source A.W.S.: Creating a Thousand Clouds

“The idea of these free versions is to create smaller versions
of the cloud, so people can do more with the computers in their own
homes, institutions and businesses. If the company is big enough to
have lots of partners, employees, and strong engineering talent,
its open source cloud could amount to a supercomputer with lots of
different capabilities, on the cheap.

“Like many open source projects, which depend on a core of
engineers creating and then publicly releasing lots of complex
software for free, there are a range of opinions about how to
interact with the profit-making giants. Of all the versions,
perhaps the most successful, as well as the friendliest to Amazon,
is Eucalyptus, which easily shares data and computing chores with
A.W.S. The idea is to give A.W.S. an ally in the open source world,
giving customers of either Eucalyptus or A.W.S. the ability to move
jobs on or off the clouds they own, depending on workload needs and
internal security policies.”

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