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[Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Packman mentioned that there are some other groups interested in
creating a separate AWS validation test suite, and that AWSOME would
probably be using that. I think Joshua Harlow from Yahoo! was working in
that area, too.

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  We just have to be careful here to make sure that lots and lots of tests
> are done to ensure that the EC2 response is valid as well as to ensure the
> performance is not de-graded by having this proxy layer. If it does get
> de-graded then there needs to be some work done to ensure that this does
> not happen (ie new features in the openstack-api). Hopefully this proxy
> layer can also remain stateless, for as long as possible (for everyone's
> sanity).
>
>
> On 4/23/12 7:57 AM, "Nick Barcet" <nick.barcet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 04/23/2012 02:39 PM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> > Philipp Wollermann wrote:
> >> What's the advantage of replacing the native EC2 compatibility layer
> with AWSOME from a user / operator point of view?
> >
> > One thing that was mentioned is that the proxy could be run on top of a
> > public cloud that chose to only deploy OpenStack API support.
>
> Another reason why we started this project is that we believe this
> architecture would be easier to use and maintain than what currently
> exists in Nova. This is why we are proposing this work as a longer term
> solution for EC2 compatibility.
>
> Nick
>
>
>
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