Somewhat. The buying further validated the market, but at the time of purchase (Sep 2024) there already were 5 alternative proprietary solutions utilizing the s

Somewhat. The buying further validated the market, but at the time of purchase (Sep 2024) there already were 5 alternative proprietary solutions utilizing the same direct-to-S3 design shipped or announced (Confluent Freight, Bufstream, AutoMQ, Redpanda cloud topics, StreamNative Ursa). The cat was out of the bag that this is a great architecture