Re:Amazon Managed Service for Grafana
by hn_asker on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @01:19AM
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My hope is that major cloud providers standardize the price around these collaborations with open source. If Azure and GCP did the same thing, why pay them differently?
Does that not risk Amazon becoming an "app store" for OSS and wielding quite a bit of influence over it?
Re:Amazon Managed Service for Grafana
by zhengyi13 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @04:56PM
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I don't think Amazon would mind being in that position.
Realistically though, with 3 major cloud vendors to choose from, I don't think the danger of app-store style control holds in the same way.
The App Store is fundamentally a problem because there exists only one (eg apple) or one is inherently privileged (eg android); on a PC/servers/cloud, this isn’t likely to ever occur.
Although, I suppose steam is an argument to the alternative, though they haven’t successfully abused their position afaik (like their attempt to monetize general modding communities across non-valve games)
IF this is the case, this is a HUGE step forward for OSS.
It is a clear and simple way for OS to monetize software, while AWS keep focusing on what it does best, operations.
This ensure long term sustainability of software and hefty profit margin for the operators.
Win-Win!