[yevpats]

IMO Terraform providers should've never been free. It should've been open-core, whether you are running on prem or on the cloud. There are multi-billion dollars companies using Terraform and pay exactly 0$ (yes, some that are generous are paying for support, great but you don't build a business on charity). Maintaining 3000 APIs for GCP, AWS, and Azure is costing at the very list $20M/year - trying to drive everyone to the cloud offering instead of charging for whatever people already use is the wrong way around imo. You can charge less but charging nothing doesn't gonna work. Heck, even a restaurant is charging a bit less for food and then charges more on beverage but it never gives the food for free.

[rirze]

I doubt this. Have you gone through AWS Provider source code? You're telling me that's a multi-million dollar repository? Their schema is horrible, badly documented and barely automated.

Maybe the new effort is going into AWS native provider but I really doubt the default AWS provider is getting enough attention.