Therefore, we have joined forces with a number of other companies to create the OpenTF manifesto. The goal of the manifesto is to ensure Terraform remains truly open source — always.
To this end, the manifesto lays out the following two-step plan:
Ask HashiCorp to switch Terraform back to open source. The manifesto is a public request—a petition
A significant share of architectural energy is spent on reducing or avoiding lock-in. That's a rather noble objective: architecture is meant to give us options and lock-in does the opposite. However, lock-in isn't a simple true-or-false matter: avoiding being locked into one aspect often locks you into another. Also, popular notions, such as open... See more
Why is AWS losing market share to Microsoft and Google? Probably because cloud cost optimisation and shift towards new type of workloads is hitting the biggest player the most.
Around 40-50% of AWS revenue comes from EC2, the most basic compute offering. This is a higher share than for Azure and GCP. Computing is the easiest cost to optimize, therefore hurting AWS the most. Google Cloud with focus on Data/AI has been consistently taking the market share from AWS/Azure and will soon have 20% of the Cloud market.