diff --git a/plugins/cloud/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cloud/blobstore/CloudBlobstoreService.java b/plugins/cloud/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cloud/blobstore/CloudBlobstoreService.java
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-/*
- * Licensed to Elastic Search and Shay Banon under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership. Elastic Search licenses this
- * file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-
-package org.elasticsearch.cloud.blobstore;
-
-import org.elasticsearch.ElasticSearchException;
-import org.elasticsearch.util.component.AbstractLifecycleComponent;
-import org.elasticsearch.util.guice.inject.Inject;
-import org.elasticsearch.util.settings.Settings;
-import org.jclouds.blobstore.BlobStoreContext;
-import org.jclouds.blobstore.BlobStoreContextFactory;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-
-/**
- * @author kimchy (shay.banon)
- */
-public class CloudBlobStoreService extends AbstractLifecycleComponent<CloudBlobStoreService> {
-
-    private final String type;
-
-    private final BlobStoreContext blobStoreContext;
-
-    @Inject public CloudBlobStoreService(Settings settings) throws IOException {
-        super(settings);
-
-        String type = componentSettings.get("type");
-        if (type == null) {
-            // see if we can get a global type
-            type = settings.get("cloud.type");
-        }
-        // consolidate names
-        if ("aws".equalsIgnoreCase(type) || "amazon".equalsIgnoreCase(type)) {
-            type = "s3";
-        } else if ("rackspace".equalsIgnoreCase(type)) {
-            type = "cloudfiles";
-        }
-        this.type = type;
-
-        String account = componentSettings.get("account", settings.get("cloud.account"));
-        String key = componentSettings.get("key", settings.get("cloud.key"));
-
-        if (type != null) {
-            blobStoreContext = new BlobStoreContextFactory().createContext(type, account, key);
-            logger.info("Connected to [{}] blob store service");
-        } else {
-            blobStoreContext = null;
-        }
-    }
-
-    @Override protected void doStart() throws ElasticSearchException {
-    }
-
-    @Override protected void doStop() throws ElasticSearchException {
-    }
-
-    @Override protected void doClose() throws ElasticSearchException {
-        if (blobStoreContext != null) {
-            blobStoreContext.close();
-        }
-    }
-}