EC2

Cloudkick is up and kicking, now supporting Rackspace Cloud Servers. Cloudkick is a cloud server management platform that allows consumers to utilize multiple cloud providers through one interface. We’ve mentioned Cloudkick in a previous entry demonstrating their Cloud Shift tool.

We’re incredibly excited now that Cloud Servers has launched.  It represents a major piece of our cloud suite and lays a solid foundation for lots of goodies and powerful compute cloud capabilities we have in the works.  Now that Cloud Servers is here, I’d like to examine a fundamental design difference between Cloud Servers and EC2 that has dramatic downstream ramifications: persistence.