Recently, I had the chance to work on a couple of projects that took me into the cloud. The first project had me setting up Eucalyptus on KVM. The second had me building out an infrastructure in Rackspace Cloud Servers. This has given me some hands on insight into the problems that are facing those of us trying to use the cloud for infrastructure build out. Since Amazon and Rackspace are probably the largest and most stable providers and my projects took me down both paths, I decided to write an article with my insight to the whole cloud thing.