Anyway, libcloud seems to be leading the way in this kind of standardization, so that's good news. There's also providers that have drop in AWS-compatible APIs for some services. Then there is stuff like apache mesos for creating that infrastructure, which is less relevant to smaller companies.

But I suspect that the last thing Amazon wants is to turn into a commodity, so it's in their interest to release as many differentiators with non-standard APIs as they can.