AppFog PaaS drops Rackspace IaaS
April 29, 2013
Grazed from The Register. Author: Jack Clark.
Platform-as-a-service provider AppFog is evaporating its cloudy bridge to Rackspace due to poor customer demand, in yet another case of the fluffy industry coming to terms with hard business realities. AppFog provides an application infrastructure automation service – otherwise known as a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) – that lets devs choose the infrastructure upon which their apps run. The company has decided to curtail support for Rackspace’s OpenStack-based cloud due to "low adoption rates," according to an email seen by The Register that was circulated to AppFog customers last week.
"While we believe [multi-cloud support] to be one of our main selling points, it’s also become increasingly resource intensive to maintain so many instances of our infrastructure," AppFog CEO Lucas Carlson wrote in the email. "In an effort to keep our service affordable and reliable, we’ll be discontinuing support of the Rackspace public cloud due to low adoption rates."…
Rackspace infrastructure support will be turned off on Thursday, and AppFog customers can no longer create new applications on Rackspace infrastructure. Instead, AppFog will revert to offering Amazon Web Services infrastructure across three separate regions, and the HP cloud…
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