Comments on: Are multiple cloud APIs bad?

By: Do we need Cloud API Standards ? « The "Present" I live in

Do we need Cloud API Standards ? « The "Present" I live in — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:24:22 +0000

[...] “Are Multiple Cloud APIs Bad ?” – Lydia Leong (from Gartner) wonders if the standard should be around already popular Amazon’s S3 and EC2 API. Also brings about an important point (which I would talk about further below) that Rackspace API is different from Amazon because Rackspace has taken some fundamentally different approacheses. [...]

By: Steve Lesem

Steve Lesem — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:55:42 +0000

I could not agree with you more. Current REST APIs are more of a reflection of the underlying storage cloud technology versus the need to have REST API conformance that strongly supports required functionality. Further , some API differentiation simply reflects specific cloud features and functions. Two quick thoughts: API “change out” effort is often outweighed by the perceived benefits of the alternative supplier; and most likely we will quickly arrive at base functionality with highly similar APIs, with particular storage cloud advanced functions being where the APIs will differ the most. Steve

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:23:16 +0000

I think Amazon S3 API is becoming a standard as many cloud storage providers such as Sun and Eucalyptus support it. There are a lot more smaller storage vendors who also offer S3 API support.