On 04/10/2021 17:26, 'Evelyn Pereira Souza' via Prometheus Users wrote:
Hi Julien
thank you, that's very good if you are satisfied with AWS. Quite a few
projects and small companies complain that AWS exploits them and gives
nothing back. So that is not the case with Prometheus.
The difficulty that some projects have is that the majority of their
contributions come from a single company, who makes their money by
selling an "enhanced" version of the OS project, a cloud version and/or
support. As a result anyone (not just Amazon) offering that system as a
service will divert customers from them, leading to a reduced income or
ultimately bankruptcy. There have therefore been attempts to restrict
what you are able to use some projects for, to prevent such competition
- whether this is a good or bad thing is a matter for debate.
Prometheus is more similar to Linux in that while a number of companies
do contribute, none of them own Prometheus (legally that is the CNCF, a
non-profit foundation) and therefore they are all on equal footing -
various people do offer cloud hosted Prometheus systems, but none of
them are competing with the "Prometheus company". In addition to company
contributions there are also a healthy number of individual
contributors, which don't suffer from the same financial limitations
(just people being willing to offer their time).
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