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Paradoxically, AWS CDK License is still Apache-licensed: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/blob/main/LICENSE https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/blob/main/LICENSE So
by hdjjhhvvhga 3y ago
Paradoxically, AWS CDK License is still Apache-licensed:
https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/blob/main/LICENSE https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/blob/main/LICENSE
So I lived to see when Amazon's offering is more open than Hashicorp's...
- paulgb 3y agoThis is basically an SDK for their proprietary CloudFormation product, though, right? It’s not like CloudFormation is open source.
- dmarinus 3y agothere's also cdk-tf (for terraform)
- amarshall 3y agoThe incentives are totally different because AWS doesn’t earn any direct revenue from AWS CDK. If someone makes some resold version of it, AWS still makes the same money from the infrastructure created.
- hdjjhhvvhga 3y agoOf course. But this means the Hashicorp Cloud is either not technically attractive enough or too expensive if Hashicorp decided to make this move.
- dragonwriter 3y agoYes. The reason to seize a monopoly is to collect rents that you would not be able to under unrestricted competition.
- devsda 3y agoAre they really comparable? Can you use CDK to deploy to say Azure or GCP ? If it's limited only to AWS, even if someone offers a better version, Amazon still wins at the end of the day.