I worked on a system called Quartz at Bank of America. It wasn't an AWS clone, but was targeting the same flexibility for the development and deployment of applications on 'programmable' infrastructure. The team that built it had done similar projects before at J. P. Morgan and Goldmans. It was a set of infrastructure and services all accessed through Python APIs, with YAML config, all stored in a single distributed version control system. It was a lot of fun to work on.
Wow, my brother works on Quartz. But I think that half of BofA does. Higgins and Kirat formed their own company to bring the Quartz/Athena paradigm to the masses.
It’s very different, much more like AWS or Azure. The underlying infra is there, you just allocate resources using config and APIs. For example there’s a server farm for running server applications such as batch processing or web applications. To stand up a new application you develop the app on a local instance of the Quartz Python runtime, check it into version control, then to deploy it by configuring a YAML file in version control that defines which server farm it runs on, the path to the code in VC, the schedule and various resource limits. That’s about it. Job done.
