Between RDS and these proprietary database products, AWS is now its own biggest competitor. That's potentially fine, but there is an inherent conflict of intere

Between RDS and these proprietary database products, AWS is now its own biggest competitor. That's potentially fine, but there is an inherent conflict of interest there and that needs to be properly managed, and while that may be happening it didn't come across in the keynote. The only way I can have trust in Amazon's proprietary products is if RDS continues to get less expensive every year, since that is effectively the BATNA to these new products. It's been a while now since the last RDS cost reductions, and unless we continue to see more of those it's hard to have confidence that Amazon will continue to treat their customers of these new proprietary services fairly over the long term.