WSO2 and Cloud

Today WSO2 is announcing our cloud initiatives. We are offering a set of capabilities - from being able to use and deploy our servers on a pure pay-as-you-use basis with Amazon EC2 to a new connector that integrates your cloud computing and partners with your internal services.

As of today, all of WSO2's products will be available in additional forms:

• Firstly as Amazon EC2 images ready to go. With a ready-built, hardened Linux core, these "paid AMIs" are fully supported on a completly pay as you go model. You simply pay for them through Amazon - starting at $1/hour - and get production support included.
• Secondly as VMWare images. Aimed at private clouds, these images are ready to deploy out-of-the-box.
• Of course all our software is still available for download - and as easy as ever to unpack and get running.
  

The Cloud Service Gateway is probably the coolest announcement of the day: a simple plug-in to any of our Carbon Server runtimes that seamlessly and securely bridges between internal services and Cloud services. I'll be blogging more about that soon.

We are also offering our first initiative in Software as a Service: Governance. WSO2's Governance Registry is the leading Open Source governance tool. Now you can have your own instance of it, running in the cloud, for free. With just a simple online setup, you can provision users, manage security and start to capture your SOA domain information in a structured way. You can access it via remote systems or through the simple web interface. While the service is in beta, it will be free-to-use. After that there will still be a basic free offering and if you wish to expand beyond that there will be straightforward pay-as-you-use pricing.

I have a lot more to talk about regarding Cloud and WSO2 - so stayed tuned for some interesting blogging!