Open Stack

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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Philipp Wollermann

Infrastructure Engineer
CyberAgent, Inc. (Tokyo)
https://github.com/philwo