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[Alisson Soares Limeira Pontes <apontes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have the same doubt as you Philipp.

By the way, some days ago I read "Citrix takes cloudstack to apache,
abandons openstack" [
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/253084/citrix_takes_cloudstack_to_apache_abandons_openstack.html
]

They said that one of the reasons was that they believe supporting Amazon's
API is crucial to the success of cloud platforms and "While OpenStack
supports some Amazon APIs, it appears more interested in backing its own
APIs."

I could not understand, since I can use euca2ools without problem with
openstack.

+1


2012/4/17 Philipp Wollermann <wollermann_philipp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Hi,
>
> I just saw the announcement of Canonical's AWSOME (
> https://launchpad.net/awsome), providing a translation proxy from the EC2
> API to the OpenStack API.
>
> I'm definitely not an expert regarding OpenStack, but… doesn't OpenStack
> already support an EC2 compatibility API?
> At least, I can use the euca2ools without problems on OpenStack Nova
> Diablo. I haven't tried Swift yet.
>
> What's the advantage of replacing the native EC2 compatibility layer with
> AWSOME from a user / operator point of view?
>
> Thanks :)
> Philipp
>

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Alisson Pontes