{"id":6757,"date":"2013-04-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/apr\/02\/amazon-web-services-opsworks-is-a-positive-move\/"},"modified":"2013-04-02T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T10:00:00","slug":"amazon-web-services-opsworks-is-a-positive-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/amazon-web-services-opsworks-is-a-positive-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Web Services\u2019 OpsWorks is a positive move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Laurent Lachal, Senior Analyst, Software &ndash; IT Solutions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In February 2013, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the beta version of AWS OpsWorks, a configuration and deployment service for AWS public cloud-based applications and their related resources. While AWS usually creates its services from scratch, OpsWorks is based on third-party technology, namely the open source Chef-based SaaS offering, Scalarium, developed by Peritor, a small Germany-based IT service provider that AWS acquired in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>OpsWorks reflects the increasingly important role of cloud computing-driven infrastructure-as-code\/DevOps practices. It is a good, albeit rather limited to date, step forward that will help some AWS customers and partners to remain in control of their AWS public cloud-based solutions. <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, it is not nearly as threatening to some of AWS&rsquo;s partners that many claim. In a recent report entitled <em>Amazon Web Services&rsquo; OpsWorks: Boosting Cloud Automation<\/em>, Ovum provides a detailed analysis of its &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurent Lachal, Senior Analyst, Software &ndash; IT SolutionsIn February 2013, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the beta version of AWS OpsWorks, a configuration and deployment service for AWS public cloud-based applications and their related resourc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}