> Reselling AWS's offerings would cost more than running it on bare VM's, I'm sure they would be able to compete on price with them.
True -- I do think passing on the cost and taking a tiny margin with drastically reduced maintenance cost could be an attractive business model at scale though.
> It also doesn't make sense to rewrite their current software which is probably abstracted for multi-cloud to support re-selling.
I have no idea what their current software looks like, do you have any inside knowledge?
If they have abstracted, then they probably have multiple implementations of a similar API -- this is just changing one of them (or maybe even cloning it to reduce possibility of breakage). This might be as simple as just changing the AWS-specific provisioner to call out to AmazonMQ instead of EC2, or changing some code that generates terraform/pulumi scripts.
One thing I think they'd have to deal with is the fact that they support custom plugins that AmazonMQ may not.
True -- I do think passing on the cost and taking a tiny margin with drastically reduced maintenance cost could be an attractive business model at scale though.
> It also doesn't make sense to rewrite their current software which is probably abstracted for multi-cloud to support re-selling.
I have no idea what their current software looks like, do you have any inside knowledge?
If they have abstracted, then they probably have multiple implementations of a similar API -- this is just changing one of them (or maybe even cloning it to reduce possibility of breakage). This might be as simple as just changing the AWS-specific provisioner to call out to AmazonMQ instead of EC2, or changing some code that generates terraform/pulumi scripts.
One thing I think they'd have to deal with is the fact that they support custom plugins that AmazonMQ may not.