> The right thing to do for AWS would have been to respect the work of the original authors (/company) and throw their weight behind an offering supported by th

> The right thing to do for AWS would have been to respect the work of the original authors (/company) and throw their weight behind an offering supported by the original developers That's what they do in some cases - their managed Grafana and Prometheus are a cooperation with Grafana Labs. But it's the only one I'm aware of, practically all other ones (MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, MySQL, PgSQL, etc.) aren't.