[kznewman]

Good points about automating the processes which surround your cloud, but I don’t think the author takes it far enough.

To get the most from cloud computing I am hoping we see cross cloud automation. With sufficient metadata surrounding the both the inputs/outputs and the preconditions/effects of processes in a cloud, it should be possible to discover a service, understand what it does, then make use of it without additional development.

I won’t go far as to say this means these steps are fully automated, but I think with some automated support, this process is seconds or minutes, not hours or days.