Is Amazon AWS APIs for EC2, S3 etc poised to go Open Source? I don’t think so.
By Tarry Singh at 30 May, 2009, 4:44 am
I am not sure if that will help Amazon get its feet inside the enterprise customers. Enterprises have heard of those open source start-ups but won’t do any business with them unless there is some sense of security and trusted advisory role of the vendor.
Although it’s only a rumor, Reuven Cohen reports hearing from more than one source that Amazon intends to open source its (AWS) Web Services APIs. “Word is Amazon’s legal team is currently ‘investigating’ open sourcing their various web services API’s including EC2, S3, etc,” he writes. Cohen argues that the move would make a lot of sense, and I agree. Although Amazon’s APIs are, as Cohen writes, “the de facto standards” in cloud computing, Amazon faces significant threats from open source cloud computing efforts if it pursues a purely proprietary path.
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