Aeolus is a set of tools for managing and running virtual machines both internally on your own equipment, and in Clouds from several leading vendors. Using Deltacloud as API "translator" Aeolus is able to interact with different cloud providers.Aeolus mission is to provide superior tools and workflows for flexible construction, management, and monitoring of multi-instance deployments across different cloud solutions from scriptable CLI clients a set of API as well as ease UI.
Deltacloud API prevents you from cloud vendor-lockin and cloud API changes. With Deltacloud you can speak up to 18 different cloud providers using one single API. Deltacloud now officialy support the CIMI API as a new industry standard for cloud computing and also non-officialy Amazon EC2 query API.