When we say "independent", we mean services that aren't connected to any of the monoclouds like AWS, Google, or Microsoft. The reason we focus on the word "independent" is because a service like Bonsai Elasticsearch will only stay in business if they provide a great Elasticsearch experience. If they provide a subpar experience, they go out of business, because that's their entire business.
The bigger conglomerate clouds are able to leverage their other services as loss leaders, each individual service doesn't have to stand alone because it's being supported by all of the others. That means they're less incentivized to provide an amazing experience, and just have to "check the boxes" to make sure they provide the bare minimum.
Don't get me wrong, many of those services are great options, and developers love them! But we want to provide the same level of convenience as the bigger clouds, by bringing together all the independents who live or die by their specialty. We think in the long run, this will yield more innovation, less lock-in, and more happy developers. :)
I feel like in the coming years there will be a sort of a reckoning on these services. We're not going to stop using EC2 or GCP or something but the AWS dashboard is ridiculously full of services I've never even heard about. I'm sure that don't all have the quality of the flagship products.
The same goes for the other big vendors obviously.
We're already creating application plugging different services, having them in the same place is a really good idea!
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Thanks for reading, and great question!
When we say "independent", we mean services that aren't connected to any of the monoclouds like AWS, Google, or Microsoft. The reason we focus on the word "independent" is because a service like Bonsai Elasticsearch will only stay in business if they provide a great Elasticsearch experience. If they provide a subpar experience, they go out of business, because that's their entire business.
The bigger conglomerate clouds are able to leverage their other services as loss leaders, each individual service doesn't have to stand alone because it's being supported by all of the others. That means they're less incentivized to provide an amazing experience, and just have to "check the boxes" to make sure they provide the bare minimum.
Don't get me wrong, many of those services are great options, and developers love them! But we want to provide the same level of convenience as the bigger clouds, by bringing together all the independents who live or die by their specialty. We think in the long run, this will yield more innovation, less lock-in, and more happy developers. :)
I agree 100% and thanks for the explanation :-)
I feel like in the coming years there will be a sort of a reckoning on these services. We're not going to stop using EC2 or GCP or something but the AWS dashboard is ridiculously full of services I've never even heard about. I'm sure that don't all have the quality of the flagship products.
The same goes for the other big vendors obviously.
We're already creating application plugging different services, having them in the same place is a really good idea!