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Re:Amazon Managed Service for Grafana by shostack on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @04:29PM (#25435492)
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 (#25435732)
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.

Re:Amazon Managed Service for Grafana by setr on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @01:55AM (#25439837)
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)

Re:Amazon Managed Service for Grafana by harpratap on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @12:45AM (#25439496)
Even if it does, I don't see how they can lock them in just their version of "app store". If it takes off, I can see GCP, Azure and others offering similar deals too.