David, Agreed that there is significant overlap in their offering with that of AWS OpsWorks. OpsWorks is for AWS. However, RightScale supports a multi-cloud management solution.

With respect to Michael Crandell’s quote “That means a company can come to us as a one stop shop and buy Google compute time as well as RightScale in one package,”: This is similar to model with which we, at ComputeNext, have been built Federated Clouds ground up. With your account in RightScale you can federate and use GCE resources. At ComputeNext, you can use a single account to discover cloud services, provision and use them from 15 (and growing) number of cloud service providers.

Would be interesting to see what other cloud service providers in the RightScale multi-cloud solution do about this Reseller agreement?

Also an interesting read: AWS vs Google Compute Engine Costs: http://blog.planforcloud.com/2013/02/aws-vs-google-compute-engine-costs.html

Cheers,
Hassan

Given Rightscale’s enterprise level pricing, it’s difficult to see a long term business where they’re going to win over the vendors themselves. Google are quite far behind Amazon but in the in the long run they’re going to have to keep jumping to other providers just to offer consulting and support (the vendors are eventually going to offer the enterprise tools themselves).