AWS and Open Source: It’s Complicated

AWS re:Invent has announced a Cassandra-compatible serverless managed solution, which is expected to increase demand for Cassandra-like solutions and allow AWS to contribute back improvements to the open source community. However, some developers are concerned that this move may cause a split in the Cassandra community due to feature disparity between the original Cassandra and the AWS offering. This has been seen before with other open source projects such as Redis and Elasticsearch, where AWS's managed solutions have led to an incomplete vision of the open source project's direction and benefits for some users. The overall impact of AWS's actions on the open source community remains a subject of debate.