Rackspace: Amazon? Sure, you can buy their cloud ... from us

Rackspace has reportedly formed a partnership with Amazon Web Services to help customers move their data centers to the online retail giant's public cloud. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, an American financial newspaper, the two companies plan to announce their new relationship at Amazon's AWS:reinvent …

[Anonymous Coward]

Yo dawg

I heard you liked clouds, so we put a cloud inside a cloud.

[Anonymous Coward]

'Fanatical support'

I've never found Rackspace's support particularly fanatical. More along the lines of 'your service has a problem.' 'No it doesn't *ticket closed*.'

[thegeorge]

Explanation needed for a dim-bulb

Does that mean Rackspace becomes the middle-man peddling AWS? Why should companies buy from them? Isn't it just going to be more expensive? (Seriously, could anyone explain?). Is additional support all that important? Isn't this concept of selling 'managed cloud' just going to drive Rackspace further into the ground?

So confused.

[joemama]

Rackspace, Running Out of Options and Runway

They have lost a lot of their best talent and they keep trying to recreate themselves. Openstack is dying, so their only game plane is to resell other cloud services and become an inefficient and expensive middle man. And they're trying to also recreate themselves as a security firm. These guys have lost their mojo. Three years and they will be no mas.