Note: Our new Scylla Cloud runs on AWS; it uses our Enterprise 2018 release, not the latest 3.0 Open Source. Yet would love to hear your thoughts!
https://www.scylladb.com/product/scylla-cloud/
I think he's being sarcastic.
It's called DynamoDB and it's been available for a long time.
You raise an interesting point, how are they going to prevent Amazon just taking their business with making SkyllaDB on demand? Confluent ( Kafka folks ) did it by adjusting the licence.