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We also like & use most of those providers with our own food (http://comodit.com) to deploy/manage them, even if they are bare metal. We also mix them in hybrid cloud scenarios.
If curious you may have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBHSz3fOP-4&hd=1 where we mix an eucalyptus private cloud on physical server with AWS.
Would love to know more about the remaining challenges to get closer of a one-clid-deployement after such a puppetizing effort.
Could you share some of the most important issues (technical or not) ? In advance many thanks.
I am really curious about your experience as we try to achieve the same objectives here with http://comodit.com
You can also directly build on Amazon your own customized CentOS images with your own kicsktart. We have written a blog post to show how to do that here: http://www.comodit.com/2012/07/12/how-to-build-your-custom-c...