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> They don't really out-compete, they just use their existing vendor lock-in to gain an advantage. For the customer, the biggest advantage of AWS' SaaS offerin
by srockets 6y ago
> They don't really out-compete, they just use their existing vendor lock-in to gain an advantage.
For the customer, the biggest advantage of AWS' SaaS offerings over a 3rd party's (hosted on AWS) is the billing. AWS Marketplace negates that. Maybe at some cost to the provider, but I just found ScyllaDB and RedisLabs there, so it must be working for some.
- hello_moto 6y ago> but I just found ScyllaDB and RedisLabs there, so it must be working for some. No, it doesn't work for RedisLabs. Amazon offers managed Redis called AWS EC Redis and recently someone I knew decided to move their entire Redis (multiple) clusters from RedisLabs to AWS EC. RedisLabs lost hundred of thousand dollars.
- srockets 6y agoI would like to think there are other definitions for a successful business than it being a single vendor.
- hello_moto 6y agoRedisLabs is probably the vendor that foot the bill for Redis software development end-to-end. While I understand that some people viewed a successful OSS project is akin to Wordpress: lots of hosting providers, rich ecosystems, _and_ Wordpress main company is still making good money out of it; this is not apple to apple comparison (can't compare Redis and Wordpress). Redis belongs to the group of MongoDB, ElasticSearch, etc.