INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Amazon's cloud computing division AWS has rejected claims that the company steals features from open source software projects.The cloud
giant was less than pleased with a recent article in the New York Times which criticized the company for integrating open source software
created by others into its own offerings
As we shared with the author, the argument that AWS is "strip-mining" open source is silly and off-base
The story is largely talking about open source software projects and companies who've tried to build businesses around commercializing that
These open source projects enable any company to utilize this software on-premises or in the cloud, and build services around it
AWS customers have repeatedly asked AWS to build managed services around open source."Gutmans then went on to explain to ZDNet that some of
the people behind open source projects end up building commercial companies around them in which they provide management of their services
The projects themselves remain open source but their management ends up turning into a for profit business.AWS itself currently contributes
to a number of open source projects including Linux, Java, Kubernetes, Xen, KVM, Chromium, Robot Operating System, Apache Lucene, Redis,
s2n, FreeRTOS and Elasticsearch.According to the New York Times report, several of AWS' rivals have even discussed bringing antitrust
occurred as the result of the success of cloud providers
Companies such as Elastic, MongoDB and Redis have taken issue with how cloud providers repackage their open source software for use on their
