But if they started charging even 1$/user/year, most of the 450M users might not be on the platform. There are other free platforms offered with similar functionality. Security/Privacy is not a concern for a lot of that 450M users.
I don't have much expertise with Timestream. Can't comment on it. But, there is nothing wrong in trying for an alternate implementation. We're using Kinesis and it is a good fit in our stack with lot less overhead. They did bring Kakfa (Amazon MSK) later to the AWS service list. Its upto the consumer to pick Kinesis or MSK.
One example which was influential in nature - Dyanmodb. The Dyanmodb paper inspired a number of NoSQL databases, including Apache Cassandra. If they have went with the popular NoSQL database at that time, we might have missed some good contribution.
For people who don't know Stewart Butterfield is the creator of Flickr and Slack. Both Flickr and Slack are side products/ideas which came up while developing a game.
We tested http api call response times. Hosting application region is AWS us-east-1. Created VMs outside AWS in other regions and tried to access it through browser. Tested the setup before and after enabling AWS Global Accelerator and hardly noticed any difference.
This centralization is a scary thing especially when all large democracies are looking to make best use of this to monitor their citizens activities most of it to curtail free speech. It will be easy to force two or three multinational corporations to share data or create backdoors than forcing hundreds of smaller corporations which dont do explicit business in those countries.
We are using Soasta at your company. We use it to do record, parametrize, playback to simulate multi user workflows. Cant see any such support here. One of the problems with Soasta is it requires lot of servers to trigger load. Looking for moving away from it. k6 seems interesting, but couldn't find any record/playback functionality. Any addon/extension which can be used to achieve similar purpose with K6?