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All the providers today have some feature differentiation among them each offering unique advantages, choosing a provider or more than one provider in a multi cloud strategy is a strategic decision for todays enterprises, considering location, cost and features that best fits for each enterprise\'s scale and growth. <\/p><\/div>

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I wish I could use both AWS & Rackspace:>)<\/p>\n\n

Good luck<\/p>\n\n

Henry<\/p><\/div>

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Just curious how this is panning out. Apparently a lot of companies are having trouble maximizing AWS due to complexity, re: http://kevinljackson.blogspot.com/2013/03/cloudcheckr-amazon-complexity.html?goback=.gde_5122002_member_5835122779006976003 However, that\'s also because of the idea that infrastructure should be managed by an in-house team...<\/p>\n\n

Disclaimer: The company I work for is partners with several vendors<\/p><\/div>

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Amazon is primarily in the B2C business (selling books, movies, electronics, garden hoses, etc.) and the only reason they have infrastructure is to support their mainline B2C business. With their cloud business they are merely selling you excess capacity. Thus AWS is a secondary business to them -- they have other things to do. (Same can be said of Google and others.) For this reason they approach customer service as a failure of automation. They don\'t really want to be in the customer service business because for them, a good day is when no human being has to talk to another human being. They also have a certain opacity to their business; proprietary systems and proprietary thinking underlie their whole business; they are not an Open Source company. OpenStack is open source, which means the pace of innovation is set by the community, not by Amazon (a single company; a \"single point of failure\" when it comes to innovation). Yes Amazon is aggressive in pursuing its own R&D. They may even let you use it when they\'re done. The point is, as the community\'s needs shift, OpenStack will shift. You cannot count on proprietary R&D to do that.<\/p>\n\n

One more thing to think about: Does your business currently compete, in any way whatsoever, with Amazon? Is in conceivable that some day you MIGHT compete with Amazon? In the future, is Amazon more likely to partner with you or compete with you? Then ask yourself: Do you really want your infrastructure in the hands of a competitor? Do you want Amazon to know more about your business than it already knows? Do you want Amazon to know your traffic patterns? The scope of your infrastructure requirements? Etc. Barnes & Noble would not put its IT needs in Amazons hands for obvious reasons. Maybe someday your business will be in a similar position and you\'ll question whether Amazon should be your primary IT provider. Something to think about now, not 5 years from now.<\/p><\/div>

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OK, if you are a member of the public, or a small company and don\'t have the skills, or perhaps the time, go for Amazon and pay for it.<\/p>\n\n

Otherwise, if you are a medium to large company, alternatives are better.<\/p>\n\n

I am not convinced that the costs of Amazon reflect real service benefits. I am guessing here as it is probably Top Secret but I expect they are still using expensive proprietal software from third parties and high-cost, high-energy branded servers .<\/p>\n\n

Such software and hardware would keep prices high. There may be a future for Amazon in this arena for rich Western companies, blue chip and non-secret governmental.<\/p>\n\n

I would compare Amazon to Apple-always overcharging and loosing volume to competitors.<\/p>\n\n

Better not by Amazon shares in the long term....<\/p><\/div>

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Interesting fight. Looks like Rackspace still an underdog.<\/p>\n\n

Let\'s see.....<\/p><\/div>