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Is there cloud software like Eucalyptus that will let you easily 'flip a switch' and start expanding onto EC2 as additional 'virtual' Eucalyptus(or whatever) nodes?

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Thats exactly what Eucalyptus is for isn't it? Are you asking for an alternative to Eucalyptus?

I don't know the details of Eucalpytus, but it sounds like you are talking about Platform-As-A-Service (PaaS), where you pay to put your application on a cloud platform, and can then expand it as needed.

Apart from EC2, other PaaS platforms include Force.com and SaaSGrid

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What I want is the meta-management tool where I can 'usually' run on my internal Eucalyptus cloud, but 'flip a switch' and expand onto EC2 instead if necessary. I think RightScale will do me. – pjz May 4 '09 at 1:17
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Turns out what I'm actually looking for is more of a PaaS managment tool. RightScale seems to be what I need, I think.

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VMware vSphere allows grabbing resources from external clouds. Their Appspeed product looks like it will do it based on an application SLA.

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