This month I want to highlight an article detailing Amazon’s effect on open source software companies, Amazon Has Gone From Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor, Say Open Source Developers. This article details how AWS offers products that compete with open source alternatives (such as Elasticsearch), and how there is a conflict of interest when AWS operates as both the cloud infrastructure provider and the product provider. This is a fascinating, broad look at AWS’ current threats to various companies, and the potential for large change in Amazon’s operating model accordingly.

https://onezero.medium.com/open-source-betrayed-industry-leaders-accuse-amazon-of-playing-a-rigged-game-with-aws-67177bc748b7

“Companies have gone from regarding cloud providers like Amazon, Google or Microsoft as not even worth mentioning as competition to dreadful, existential threat.”