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hyperscaler

In the COSS economy, hyperscalers (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) are the dominant cloud infrastructure providers that control the underlying plumbing of the modern internet.
From a strategic perspective, they represent a double-edged sword:
  1. The Channel: They provide the global infrastructure where most Commercial Open Source software ultimately runs.
  2. The Threat: They possess the scale to "strip-mine" open source projects by wrapping the free code into a proprietary managed service, capturing the monetization value without contributing back to the creator1.
Defending against this "hyperscaler commoditization" is the primary driver behind the industry's shift toward defensive "Source-Available" licensing and the "Cloud" revenue model2.


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