[briancurtin]

> If you standardize on the lowest common denominator, you lose many of the key features of AWS such as VPC and autoscaling.

That's not the level where libcloud is aiming for LCD - it's not at a provider level, but at a product level. As long as a couple of providers support autoscaling, and AWS and Rackspace do, there can be support for it. It's on my todo list to implement, by finding the common thread between AWS and Rackspace APIs, and developing an abstraction that aims to cover the features of both.

[Rackspace employee, libcloud committer]