Looks like Cassandra is now supported by the whirr incubator project now. Whirr is an apache incubator project that runs cloud services in a cloud provider (ec2, rackspace cloud, etc.) neutral way: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WHIRR/Index
One of the first use cases is Cassandra - pretty cool. However the docs are currently lacking. Adrian Cole (OpsCode/JClouds) said that currently the only real docs for setting things up are the tests: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/whirr/trunk/services/cassandra/src/test/java/org/apache/whirr/service/cassandra/integration/CassandraServiceTest.java If anyone is looking to do a good blog post or wiki article on how to use whirr with Cassandra, I'm sure it would be much appreciated. Anyway, just for anyone looking into cloud + cassandra :).