Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Eucalyptus Partner to Bring Additional Compatibility Between AWS and On-premises IT Environments

SOURCE: Eucalyptus

SEATTLE, WA. – March 22, 2012 – Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company and the leader in cloud computing (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Eucalyptus Systems, a provider of on-premises Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) software, today announced an agreement that enables customers to more efficiently migrate workloads between their existing data centers and AWS while using the same management tools and skills across both environments. As part of this agreement, AWS will support Eucalyptus as they continue to extend compatibility with AWS APIs and customer use cases. Customers can run applications in their existing datacenters that are compatible with popular Amazon Web Services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

“We’re pleased to provide customers with the added flexibility to more freely move workloads between their existing IT environments and the AWS cloud,” said Terry Wise, Director of Amazon Web Services Partner Ecosystem. “Enterprises can now take advantage of a common set of APIs that work with both AWS and Eucalyptus, enabling the use of scripts and other management tools across both platforms without the need to rewrite or maintain environment-specific versions. Additionally, customers can leverage their existing skills and knowledge of the AWS platform by using the same, familiar AWS SDKs and command line tools in their existing data centers.”

“We’re excited to be working more closely with AWS,” said Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus. “The ability to develop against a common set of market-leading APIs, for both on-premise and cloud deployments, is a big benefit for our customers and software partners. This agreement is going to accelerate our roadmap, and help us maintain our compatibility with AWS as both companies continue to innovate.”

“The cloud is becoming an increasingly important foundation for our data center operations, which support more than 600,000 hotel rooms under seven brands,” said Scott Johnson, Vice President of Enterprise Engineering at InterContinental Hotel Group. “As a user of both Amazon Web Services and Eucalyptus, this agreement will provide us with even greater flexibility and scalability for our cloud deployments. We believe the ability to leverage a common set of APIs will significantly transform our operations and provide a business advantage in the competitive hospitality industry.”

About Eucalyptus Systems

Eucalyptus Systems provides IT organizations in enterprises, government agencies and Web and mobile businesses with the most widely deployed software platform for on-premises Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Eucalyptus is specifically designed for enterprise use, and the software platform is uniquely suited for private or hybrid IaaS computing. Built as an open source product, Eucalyptus supports the industry-leading Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud APIs, as well as all major virtualization platforms including Xen, KVM and VMware vSphere, ESX and ESXi. The company has an active and growing ecosystem of customers, partners, developers and researchers that benefit from Eucalyptus’ open, fast and standards-compliant approach. For more information about Eucalyptus, please visit www.eucalyptus.com.

Eucalyptus and Eucalyptus Systems are trademarks in the U.S. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Other product or company names mentioned may be trademarks or trade names of their respective companies.

About Amazon Web Services

Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services — now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon’s expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and startup customers businesses in 190 countries around the world. AWS offers over 28 different services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). AWS services are available to customers from data center locations in the U.S., Brazil, Europe, Japan and Singapore.

Forward-Looking Statements

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