AWS is an investor in Weaveworks where the implementation (Cortex) was first created. Weaveworks had two Prometheus maintainers on staff at the time. In the an

AWS is an investor in Weaveworks where the implementation (Cortex) was first created. Weaveworks had two Prometheus maintainers on staff at the time. In the announcement it says AWS have a commercial relationship with Grafana Labs, where several Prometheus maintainers, community managers, etc. currently work. (I work for Weaveworks)