It is not a "cloud" that damages open core projects, it is Wal-Martesque cloud providers. If you are buying lots of infrastructure from AWS, there's just no rea

It is not a "cloud" that damages open core projects, it is Wal-Martesque cloud providers. If you are buying lots of infrastructure from AWS, there's just no reason to buy MongoDB or Redis from their creators: you would just put more load on your accounting, monitoring and cost controlling and will have nothing extra in return, except pride for supporting open source. There is an interesting model at Google cloud, where I can deploy and use a Grafana stack for moderate $50/month. Looks like Grafana gets a solid chunk of these money - they are advertising it on their own website.