I won't be surprised if someone writes a generic lambda library which given a cloud provider generates relevant mappings/code. Will take care of some of the vendor lock-in concerns ?
I think this would be the solution. I guess lambda is basically IFTTT at scale with more configurable "T" portion.
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.
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.