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- Amazon's tactics are to either offer a proprietary alternative to those enterprise features (Elasticache, DocumentDB), or to vend a competing open-source alternative with the aforementioned features (ElasticSearch, Corretto)
- Google's approach looks to be partnering with the maintainer to offer a shared walled garden (so while you're still locked-in, you can easily migrate between blessed partners).
I'm not yet convinced GCP's tactic is overall good for opensource as a whole, since they are setting themselves up as de facto benevolent gatekeepers; although admittedly they will allow these projects to thrive under their current stewardship in the medium term.
Edit: I'm also interested in seeing what happens here when there are multiple competing vendors who have equivalent claims to stewardship of the underlying project - ex:- Hortonworks and Cloudera pre-merger, or Cloudera vs. MapR. Also, how vendors with vast proprietary ecosystems work out in this "native fully managed" setting, ex:- Databricks which has managed to get on by on the Azure and AWS marketplaces.
That leapfrogs AWS and azure in feature parity on those services while also funding said services further because they get a cut.
Brilliant move IMO and I think it'll be a boom for improving open source software and increasing competition between the clouds.