Kathleen FitzpatrickA thought experiment: if you suddenly had access to the resources required and had a burning desire to create a community-owned and -governed cloud computing/hosting service/alternative to AWS, what would you be sure to consider, include, provide, support?
Scott Koranda@kfitz The CILogon service operated by NCSA at the University of Illinois relies heavily on the managed relational database service (RDS), managed Kubernetes service (EKS), managed key-store (DynamoDB), and dynamic file system (EFS) offerings. It would be difficult for us to move away from AWS and adopt the alternative you hypothesize unless the alternative services provided similar functionality at a similar price point. The key is the "managed" part of the services so that our limited staff does not have to be experts in the fine details of operating HA databases and the like, and we can instead focus on our application offerings. HTH.
@skoranda This is SUPER helpful. Thanks, Scott!