Apparently the world is standing by waiting for Google to copy Amazon and wheel out an EC2 imitator this week at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco.
Google already has the platform-as-a-service App Engine and the S3-like Google Cloud Storage but the money is in IaaS. It’s said Amazon Web Services may do $2 billion this year.
Microsoft remade Windows Azure into a Linux-toting hybrid-supporting infrastructure-as-a-service vehicle a couple of weeks ago. Microsoft is tight with enterprise developers and both Amazon and Google want them. That’s why Amazon tied up with Eucalyptus and its private clouds.