Why did openstack fail? Or did it, was it just not adopted? I think there is still a lot of potential for open source management of core EC2/S3/networking capa

Why did openstack fail? Or did it, was it just not adopted? I think there is still a lot of potential for open source management of core EC2/S3/networking capabilities (aka "core AWS IAAS service"). We have a fair number of cloud abstraction layers now, and obviously kubernetes, you'd think we could as an industry produce core apis for doing resource listing, availability, etc. Maybe some of the problem is that devs have a LOT of experience with the "ask" side of IaaS: gimme storage, gimme vms, set. But they have no experience with the "provide" side, and the sort of one-off manual nature of installing networking and machines doesn't have good standardization for "reporting available resources". At this point, aws apis are somewhat stable. (I would bitch about the error codes and documentation... but anyway). It's obviously "good enough" after 10-15 years of them. Are there projects that try to marry an aws-ish api, which really is a reporting and request api, with a "available resources" reporting api? Are some of these things out there? AWS ten years ago was liberating. It was progress. It was a good thing. But Amazon is not a "do no evil" corporation, much the opposite. And you see this in AWS with its treatment of startups, open source projects, and other manipulations. They are a monopoly now, or at a minimum a dangerous cartel. A real open source alternative would be a good thing. It would be good for the rest of FAANG, it would encourage competition by allowing lesser clouds to offer core competencies that are drop-in.