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Re:Cracks are showing in Enterprise Open Source's foundations by ddevault on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:47PM (#25945585)
It's not that hard to compete with AWS. AWS is scatterbrained and provides a really bad UX and as-is integrations where the "is" is not great. You might lose some business to them, but the cases we've seen lately aren't that: Elastic cleared almost half a billion dollars last year.

What open source does mean is surrendering your monopoly over what you build. Amazon may capture some of your value as a result, but that's part of the deal. I wrote about it here:

https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/20/FOSS-is-to-surrender-your...

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Re:Cracks are showing in Enterprise Open Source's foundations by andor on Friday January 29, 2021 @07:10AM (#25956461)
"It's not that hard to compete with AWS. AWS is scatterbrained and provides a really bad UX and as-is integrations where the "is" is not great."

A lot of enterprise buying decisions come down to: "AWS/Azure/... is already an approved vendor, so let's just buy from them instead of going through the hoops to get Elastic approved". The "super scalers" are offering a path of least resistance that is difficult to overcome.

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