Cloud Throw Down: Part 1

The clouds available from Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, Rackspace and others have a few things in common. They’re all providing storage, APIs, and other bits around the premise of the cloud. They all also run on virtualized operating systems. This blog entry I’m going to focus on some key features and considerations I’ve run into over the last year or so working with these two cloud stacks. I’ll discuss a specific feature and then will rate it declaring a winner.