> If I want a managed service, I _want_ to pay for that. The price includes people responding to pages and fixing problems, as well as fiddling with configs. I

> If I want a managed service, I _want_ to pay for that. The price includes people responding to pages and fixing problems, as well as fiddling with configs. Is this not what S3 is? You are free to use Elasticsearch and handle everything yourself, but if you want a managed service, you can use AWS. They are "attacking" the S3 offering, I still struggle to see any difference with them hosting Postgres. > And I'd much rather be paying that money to a small (relatively) open-source company than a behemoth like AWS. I am 100% with you on this, I do not want to defend AWS nor do I want to promote their products. The vendor lock-in situation you are in when using AWS is pretty bad and quite scary... An yes, I agree that the way they monetize open-source software is questionable.