Some open-source projects have companies behind them - e.g. I am the founder of RudderStack, an open-source segment. We have thought about this quite a bit. Th

Some open-source projects have companies behind them - e.g. I am the founder of RudderStack, an open-source segment. We have thought about this quite a bit. The way to address this is to make offering your OSS as-a-service from day-1. Initially, you are small and AWS won't care. Once you become big, you should be able to compete with AWS on the service offering - afterall you know your code best. The problem arises when the OSS vendors had a different business model (open-source, on-prem support only) and AWS is able to completely own the as-a-service market.