Re:Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Compet...
by 013a on Friday April 26, 2019 @12:03PM
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Their elasticsearch fork is literally called Open Distro for Elasticsearch. Its totally open, and all licensed as Apache 2.0.
Their mongodb clone isn't. It'd be kind of cool if it was, but there's substantial evidence its based on the Aurora Storage engine. Through the docs and various talks at Re:Invent, its clear that the ASE is insanely coupled to AWS, with tight integration to S3 and deep availability-zone awareness. It would be useless beyond an academic exercise to someone who isn't on AWS. It would be cool to see it all open sourced, but not really valuable.
AWS has a pretty strong history of open source in the cloud space, such that it feels strange to me that people still think they're an "enemy" or something. Not as strong as Google or Microsoft, but they're certainly not a New Oracle or anything. You should check out their Open Source Blog [1], and notice that new posts are made literally every two days.
Their mongodb clone isn't. It'd be kind of cool if it was, but there's substantial evidence its based on the Aurora Storage engine. Through the docs and various talks at Re:Invent, its clear that the ASE is insanely coupled to AWS, with tight integration to S3 and deep availability-zone awareness. It would be useless beyond an academic exercise to someone who isn't on AWS. It would be cool to see it all open sourced, but not really valuable.
AWS has a pretty strong history of open source in the cloud space, such that it feels strange to me that people still think they're an "enemy" or something. Not as strong as Google or Microsoft, but they're certainly not a New Oracle or anything. You should check out their Open Source Blog [1], and notice that new posts are made literally every two days.
[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/