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> Khawaja has experience at AWS where he owned DynamoDB, and subsequently owned product and engineering for all 7 of the AWS Media Services.

This isn't a clear-cut conflict of interest because he doesn't work there anymore, but when the article started claiming that AWS gets full credit for Redis's mainstream adoption I went to look at his bio and found this.

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I think of it as different companies helping at different stages of mainstream adoption

for any open source project, the initial adoption during its initial stages would have been that project itself, later on it will be someone with financial incentive to drive adoption but that would still be a niche market and as soon as it starts to show potential aws simply copies and gives it as an offering

all 3 help with the adoption, whether we like it or not, aws has much larger distribution channel and people would rather just use one of the existing vendor than buy a new Nth vendor

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