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Comment by likeabbas | Hacker News Reader

Right, but isn't RedisLabs screwed now that AWS has packaged Redis open source into an AWS service that is cheaper?

AWS is everyone's competitor. Their playbook is to take open source products, package them up in the AWS cloud, and provide long term support. That does not mean that the AWS version of every open source product is the best version. Redis Labs doubtless has a deeper feature set that will appeal to customers in a different way than the AWS offering. Additionally, Redis Labs is cloud agnostic. That's a big differentiator.

Yeah, but it’s not cheaper than AWS or rather it can’t be profitably cheaper IMO because of lack of scale. So as long as AWS option is good enough, as a CFO I’d go in that direction.

Nebulous claims like cloud neutrality don’t pay the bills and I have not really seen businesses jump from one cloud to another seamlessly, no matter the software.

If AWS was "good enough" in all cases, no one would use redis labs solution on AWS.

https://redislabs.com/partner/aws/

as they sell it, obviously some organizations are buying it, so those orgs must find the AWS option "not good enough". is it possible that AWS will continue to improve it? yes, but presumably Redis Labs will also continue to improve their solution.

This episode discusses how such businesses avoid having the big cloud cos become competitors https://pca.st/episode/889547c9-ffe8-4332-ba7e-e4678bf22c3d

Thank you. I will listen to this one. Invest Like the Best is awesome.

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