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In my understanding, AWS is selling the service and the hosting while Grafana is selling the software. AWS is the distributore of the software and it is paying
by siscia 6y ago
In my understanding, AWS is selling the service and the hosting while Grafana is selling the software. AWS is the distributore of the software and it is paying a reasonable fee to Grafana.
IF this is the case, this is a HUGE step forward for OSS.
It is a clear and simple way for OS to monetize software, while AWS keep focusing on what it does best, operations.
This ensure long term sustainability of software and hefty profit margin for the operators.
Win-Win!
- shostack 6y agoDoes that not risk Amazon becoming an "app store" for OSS and wielding quite a bit of influence over it?
- zhengyi13 6y agoI don't think Amazon would mind being in that position. Realistically though, with 3 major cloud vendors to choose from, I don't think the danger of app-store style control holds in the same way.
- harpratap 6y agoEven if it does, I don't see how they can lock them in just their version of "app store". If it takes off, I can see GCP, Azure and others offering similar deals too.
- setr 6y agoThe App Store is fundamentally a problem because there exists only one (eg apple) or one is inherently privileged (eg android); on a PC/servers/cloud, this isn’t likely to ever occur. Although, I suppose steam is an argument to the alternative, though they haven’t successfully abused their position afaik (like their attempt to monetize general modding communities across non-valve games)
- hn_asker 6y agoMy hope is that major cloud providers standardize the price around these collaborations with open source. If Azure and GCP did the same thing, why pay them differently?