[eandre]

Good questions! "Encore Cloud" is currently deployed to AWS and DigitalOcean under the hood.

As for being tied to us, that's a big part of why we're open sourcing it. We see that Encore can rather reduce lock-in, as the code you end up writing with Encore is very cloud-agnostic, but also quite agnostic of Encore itself (by virtue of using static analysis, you end up writing mostly regular business logic).

And when you use it you can deploy the applications to your own account at any major cloud provider, so you can use your existing trust relationships with your cloud provider of choice.

As for the name, it's a bit of a wordplay :). "en-" for "to bring about [something]", and "core" for "the part of something that is central to its existence or character" (in our case backend development).