Related topics  Amazon, Eucalyptus team on cloud compatibility
Not exactly 'private EC2', but close  Amazon has made it pretty
clear that it does not believe in private clouds – except its
own, on which it sells outsiders capacity through its Amazon Web
Services. But if companies want private clouds, it has to do
something. And that something is to give the nod to Eucalyptus
Systems, a maker of a private cloud stack that clones Amazon's
EC2, through a partnership agreement.  Neither AWS nor
Eucalyptus Systems, the commercial entity behind the open-core
Eucalyptus cloud fabric, gave out much details about the nature
of the partnership.  Don't get too excited about an alliance
between the two companies where they would cross-sell each
other's products and services, though. A spokesperson for
Eucalyptus told El Reg that the agreement that AWS and
Eucalyptus have inked has no such provisions. Rather, the
partnership is about making it easier for customers to migrate
back and forth between their existing data cen