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Re:Brightbox release new cloud service pricing by rahoulb on Friday August 19, 2011 @10:41AM (#2903505)
No lock-in - easy to take your images and use them elsewhere.
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Re:Brightbox release new cloud service pricing by ridruejo on Friday August 19, 2011 @11:06AM (#2903600)
You can also take your AWS images and run them on Eucalyptus. Amazon also has some initial support for exporting to VMWare. In any case, there will always be a certain degree of lock-in, but it should not be at the image level. You can always use something like http://bitnami.org (disclaimer, I am the author :) that allows you to share the same environment locally, as a VM or as an AMI
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Re:Brightbox release new cloud service pricing by oldpatricka on Friday August 19, 2011 @11:14AM (#2903625)
In what sense is there less lock in with Brightbox than with EC2? I've run EC2 images on other IaaS clouds, and it's easy to pull an image out with ec2-download-bundle.
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Re:Brightbox release new cloud service pricing by rahoulb on Friday August 19, 2011 @11:38AM (#2903729)
Oh. When I tried (admittedly a while ago) I couldn't get it working elsewhere and found a few others who had the same problem.
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