{"id":5685,"date":"2012-08-16T23:23:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T04:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5685"},"modified":"2012-08-16T23:23:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T04:23:12","slug":"microsoft-azure-vs-amazon-web-services-which-is-best-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5685","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Azure vs. Amazon Web Services: Which is Best For You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But there are a couple of other possibilities. Some open-source wrapper APIs under construction claim to support a whole set of clouds. In fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/dasein-cloud\" target=\"_blank\">here\u2019s one on Sourceforge<\/a>; I haven\u2019t personally tried it and can\u2019t vouch for it in any way, except to say that it\u2019s just one example of a handful out there (do a Google search).<\/p>\n<p>I suspect we\u2019re going to see more of these open-source APIs that target multiple vendors. With one of those, you can potentially use any number of clouds. As for the APIs themselves\u2014if you\u2019re not worried about vendor lock-in, then both Amazon\u2019s and Microsoft\u2019s platforms are actually pretty easy to use and are in many ways quite similar. I personally rank them both about equal in programmability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/topic\/cloud\/microsoft-azure-vs-amazon-web-services-which-is-best-for-you\/\">Microsoft Azure vs. Amazon Web Services: Which is Best For You?<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But there are a couple of other possibilities. Some open-source wrapper APIs under construction claim to support a whole set of clouds. In fact, here\u2019s one on Sourceforge; I haven\u2019t personally tried it and can\u2019t vouch for it in any &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5685\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[173,67,375],"class_list":["post-5685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-api","tag-cloud-computing","tag-web-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5686,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions\/5686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}