There's a lot of weird assumptions in this thread that this is some sort of strike against Amazon/AWS. It's not. AWS's managed grafana is built in partnership with grafana labs, and this license change won't affect it.
From Grafana:
"AWS is a strategic partner, and given the commercial relationship AWS has with us for AMG, AWS and their AMG customers are not impacted by this change. We hope that other XaaS providers follow AWS’s lead in working with open source software companies in similarly sustainable ways."
It could still be with AWS in mind. After this change, they'll be in a better negotiation position vs. AWS, since AWS can't (as easily) threaten that they'll build their own competing offer.
> AWS can't (as easily) threaten that they'll build their own competing offer
Elasticsearch changed their licence for more or less this reason [1]. So it wouldn't surprise me if Grafana's motivation was to solidify their position against Amazon.
> Elasticsearch changed their licence for more or less this reason
And look how it's going for them. AWS very nicely forked elsasticsearch and now has the fork that seems to be gathering quite a bit of momentum. I doubt that AWS was even considering talking with them after they announced the license change.
From Grafana:
"AWS is a strategic partner, and given the commercial relationship AWS has with us for AMG, AWS and their AMG customers are not impacted by this change. We hope that other XaaS providers follow AWS’s lead in working with open source software companies in similarly sustainable ways."
https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/qa-with-our-ceo-on-relic...