Nowadays, the IT industry is trying to avoid vendor lock-in by moving to the open source world whenever possible. OpenStack provides a window into this world; many large organizations and telecom operators are considering moving their workloads to OpenStack, to build their private clouds in its data center. They can then build their own tools to interact with the open source APIs provided by OpenStack.
In the next chapter, we will explore another (paid) public Amazon cloud, and will learn how we can leverage Python to automate instance creation.
