So what I'm envisioning are services designed for zero profit. Prices are indexed to AWS/Azure/Google prices; as they fall, the service's prices falls. Customer

So what I'm envisioning are services designed for zero profit. Prices are indexed to AWS/Azure/Google prices; as they fall, the service's prices falls. Customers who need predictable pricing can buy long term contracts, as they do on AWS. Customers who use the service more, pay more, because the service offers utility-based pricing. The goal is to make the service as cheap as possible and maintained by the community. The source code and all data, except private data (e.g., API keys), is open and editable by the community. Think it would be an interesting way to deliver services and data, just not sure how it turns into a business (since the API/service portion is designed to be zero profit).