It’s called “bias for action”. Actually AWS/Amazon operates like a United States of Startups and the decision is commonly made by team at the bottom of the org

It’s called “bias for action”. Actually AWS/Amazon operates like a United States of Startups and the decision is commonly made by team at the bottom of the org tree. So it’s likely a few engineers and managers decide to fork it just to launch something for their KPI. As long as their legal agrees, the leadership has no idea about how team do it