It's described as a 'fully functional local AWS cloud stack' for testing and mocking AWS cloud development projects on local machines.

Figure 1: The AWS stack of hardware choices and software tools is perhaps unmatched by any other cloud service provider.

And the VMware stack running on AWS will be able to use a variety of migration services, such as Direct Connect networking, Snowball data movement, S3 Transfer Acceleration, or Storage Gateway to move ...

We have been making the case in this three part series that vertical integration is becoming more popular in modern datacenters. (See the links at the bottom of this story for those two prior and ...