Amazon AWS anounces OpsWorks

This is interesting since it sounds like OpsWorks would eliminate some of the need for tools like chef and puppet to configure new instances (vm machines) in your cloud.  It sounds like it can take chef recipes and just use them.  Will have to keep an eye on this.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/19/aws-launches-opsworks-a-potential-paas-disruptor-to-automate-app-deployment-to-the-cloud/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29