Did you know that Amazon leads more than 1,200 open source projects on GitHub? That number, which author got from the Open Source at AWS web page, was confirmed by Asay (Head of Open Source Strategy and Marketing at Amazon Web Services) to represent “officially sponsored projects” — meaning they are open source projects that began inside of AWS, rather than being independent projects run by AWS employees. By Richard MacManus.
Asay added that AWS actually contributes to thousands of other open source projects, too. “The majority of the [GitHub] repositories to which we contribute are not AWS sponsored,” he said. Asay spends a bunch of his time working with AWS partners, such as MongoDB. Which brings up an interesting question: how does he explain the open source strategy of AWS to a company like MongoDB, which AWS actually competes with because of open source. Long story short: MongoDB is a company built around open source technology that it created, only to then watch AWS launch a managed service version of the same technology.
The article further explains:
- Why does aws want you to use Open Source?
- Why AWS contributes to so many Open Source projects
- Open Source as a strategy for AWS
As for AWS, it is not only running 1,200 open source projects and contributing to thousands more, but it’s also the place where a huge amount of open source code runs. Good read!
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