I always post something like this on AWS threads, but AWS' greatest advantage is that there's like a 99% chance that AWS services are already greenlighted by th

I always post something like this on AWS threads, but AWS' greatest advantage is that there's like a 99% chance that AWS services are already greenlighted by the various regulatory teams inside a company. Sure, there might be a rubber stamp process where I have to get my boss to sign off on the spend to use AWS' version of Redis. But that's pretty much it, I can be up and running in a week or two. If I have to go to Redis directly for this stuff it's going to take me months to get anything working. First I'm going to have to justify why we need another product internally. Then I have to get buy in from my boss. Then there's going to be a bunch of calls between procurement and Redis. Then when we finally get licenses, I'll have to talk to security about how to secure this damn thing (because it won't work with IAM). Then I have to deploy it, set up monitoring, etc, etc. I honestly don't know how to get around this for open source companies. One thing would be to make pricing easy and transparent, and to not require the usual bullshittery around negotiating contracts. If I don't need anything special, there should be a page I can go to and input the sizing requirements for my license, have it spit out an invoice and email me a license when the invoice is paid. That way I can just take that to my boss and ask them to pay it, and avoid a lot of the inevitable "negotiations" that likely end up with the same contract.