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I'm not sure I like what MS is doing. They're innovating (or at least fixing things) almost exclusively only in cloud/online services/products.
by Aoyagi 12y ago
I'm not sure I like what MS is doing. They're innovating (or at least fixing things) almost exclusively only in cloud/online services/products.
- wmf 12y agoWindows Server will let you run your own Azure, but you can't run your own EC2 or GCE.
- _delirium 12y agoAmazon themselves don't provide a way to run your own EC2, but Eucalyptus [1] is an open-source implementation that works for some use-cases. I believe OpenStack and CloudStack also implement a good portion of the AWS APIs. [1] https://www.eucalyptus.com/ https://www.eucalyptus.com/
- derekdb 12y agoLast I checked, Eucalyptus is missing an number of the APIs that customers really use once they are doing more than just hosting a few VMs. Access control, security, VPN... The service providers are actually quite different and any attempt to standardize is just doing to be the least-common-denominator, which is going to be missing a great number of useful features.
- walterbell 12y agoBoard-level changes at Microsoft over the last year or two have placed a higher priority on platform-agnostic cloud services, vs. Windows. Hence new versions of Windows that are free, but collect usage data from bundled services, like Google does.