Recently, Cloud Foundry Foundation CEO Sam Ramji made some strong statements against public cloud adoption. Here's a fact check.
Given the significant momentum behind public clouds like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, it's easy to forget that private cloud providers keep selling into enterprise data centers. Red Hat, for example, is making a tidy business straddling the transitional fence between private data centers and public cloud. So is Cloud Foundry, which led my friend and Cloud Foundry Foundation CEO Sam Ramji to push back on the suggestion that the cloud wars would end with Amazon controlling all.
In his rush to dismantle AWS' infallibility, however, Ramji may have gone too far. So, in the spirit of the "fact checking" that permeates politics, let's review a few of his more contentious statement.
Fallacy 1: Amazon competitors should shun AWS
One of Ramji's first declarations was: "Companies who compete with Amazon and run their digital business on AWS are taking substantial risk." To wit, Ramji insinuates that Amazon "gets real-time indicators of
