The whole point is to force the cloud providers to go through a contract negotiation for licensing rather than keep the door open for them. Nothing prevents the parent project from specially licensing to individual parties.
The issue is that AGPL is flatly banned at many companies, so now any company that even wants to test this database out is going to have to seek a contract, which they won't.
The issue is that AGPL is flatly banned at many companies, so now any company that even wants to test this database out is going to have to seek a contract, which they won't.