Comments on: Amazon adds OpsWorks application life cycle management to AWS cloud

By: Thomas Orozco

Thomas Orozco — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:21:29 +0000

Disclaimer: I work at Scalr.

We have mixed feelings regarding OpsWorks.

We think it’s easy and pleasant to use, and while it draws inspiration from tools such as Scalr and Rightscale, we think it’s still too limited in features to offer a competitive solution.

OpsWorks is probably a great tool for small deployments and experimentation though!

Naturally, although we understand Amazon’s policy as a customer-centric company, we are grieved to see Amazon competing with parts of its ecosystem.

You can read more about what we think of OpsWorks on our blog: http://scalr.com/blog/like-opsworks-youll-love-scalr/

By: BobjJones

BobjJones — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:01:58 +0000

No Enterprise will use Opsworks. A single cloud ops tool – what are we in 2007?

By: donjduncan

donjduncan — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:40:50 +0000

Reblogged this on Enterprise Computing Speedbumps and commented: An API interface for management is definitely the way to go.

By: Barb Darrow

Barb Darrow — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:34:40 +0000

Good point on Rightscale, David. and thanks for the comment.

By: David Mytton

David Mytton — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:22:37 +0000

This is AWS’s play into the enterprise market – it’s clearly the initial version of a product targeting Rightscale. Scalr should be concerned by this too but they’re not as enterprise focused as Rightscale. Now Amazon has a wide range of products build around the core services like compute and storage, the next logical step is to produce more management functionality.

The really interesting bit is how they’ve acquired the technology for this from Peritor – an approach similar to how Apple acquire for technology for future products.

There’s a good description of how this fits into the other AWS offerings at the end of Werner Vogles’ post: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2013/02/aws-opsworks.html