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hiyertoday at 1:03 AM2 repliesview on HN

They have made it proprietary so that providers like AWS can't build their own service with it, thus eating into PS's income.

Google is big enough to survive open-sourcing Vitess, k8s, angular, etc. Planetscale isn't.


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samlamberttoday at 1:23 AM

correct. AWS do anti-competitive stuff to us all the time we can't make it any easier for them.

figmerttoday at 5:38 AM

Google, Azure, and AWS already have their highly available PostgreSQL alternatives.