{"id":1607,"date":"2012-05-16T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2278281"},"modified":"2012-05-16T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T13:15:00","slug":"cloud-api-standardization-its-time-to-get-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-api-standardization-its-time-to-get-serious\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud API Standardization \u2013 It\u2019s Time to Get Serious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay \u2013 this is easy\u2026 or is it?<br \/>\nLots of people continue to perpetuate the idea that the AWS APIs are a de facto standard, so we should just all move on about it.  At the same time, everybody seems to acknowledge the fact that Amazon has never ever indicated that they want to be a true standard.  Are we reallyIn fact, they have played quite the coy game and kept silent luring potential competitors into a false sense of complacency.<br \/>\nAmazon has licensed their APIs to Eucalyptus under what I and others broadly assume to be a a hard and fast restriction to the enterprise private cloud market. I would not be surprised to learn that the restrictions went further \u2013 perhaps prohibiting Eucalyptus from offering any other API or claiming compatibility with other clouds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2278281\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay \u2013 this is easy\u2026 or is it?<br \/>\nLots of people continue to perpetuate the idea that the AWS APIs are a de facto standard, so we should just all move on about it.  At the same time, everybody seems to acknowledge the fact that Amazon has never ever i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}