QuasarDB employee chiming in - we’re not actually worried, our clients are typically operating at a scale that would make costs very prohibitive for this AWS product.
Having said that, I can definitely see this be an interesting product for people doing less than 10k inserts per second.
Actually not really. We have migrated several customers to AWS and our experience with AWS services are kind of all over the place. S3 is super cheap and reliable and there is almost nothing that beats that but for example CloudWatch is extremely expensive for a large scale operation that is easy to beat with custom software (like Prometheus or something similar). I guess even Datadog would beat them (and they have much more advanced features and integrations). This means that there are multiple software vendors can exist in the same space even when Amazon has an offering in that space.
