When will the clouds begin to partner in ways that accelerate adoption?

For example, if you use Amazon S3 for storage, unless you are running on EC2, the roundtrip to and from that cloud can be slow and costly.

If another cloud service were to create a direct connection into that cloud, it would be a huge value add when evaluating doing business with these “partner” services.

Why do I ask?

I have used Amazon EC2 and S3, am running hosting accounts, virtual servers and a complete rack of owned servers.

I get the bills, see the latency and believe there is a huge opportunity for middle tier vendors to differentiate their offerings.

Few other companies are going to build an S3 competitor. The rest of the infrastructure pie will be grabbed by making smart partnerships to connect efficiently and cost effectively to these cloud services.