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moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 3 months agoAWS is software. Just not something you can self host.
There already exist alternatives to AWS, like localstack, a local AWS for testing purposes, or the more mature openstack, which is designed for essentially running your own AWS at scale.
hperrin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
AWS is a collection of services made from many systems running all sorts of different software working together. Which piece of software do they plan to make? Are they trying to make cloud infra provisioning software? Cause that’s called AWS Management Console.
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 3 months ago
Openstack skyline/horizon
Openstack nova
And so on. Openstack is also many, many components, that can be pieced together for your own cloud computing platform.
Although it won’t have the sheer number of services AWS has, many of them are redundant.
The core services I expect to see done first: compute, networking, storage (+ image storage), and a web UI/API
Next: S3 storage, Kubernetes as a service, and then either Databases as a service or containers as a service.
But you are right, many of the services that AWS offers are highly specialized (robotics, space communication), and people get locked in, and I don’t really expect to see those.