[deanCommie]

> By contrast AWS takes most of the profits whilst contributing relatively nothing back

You do understand that AWS profits not off redis but by offering redis as a managed hosting provider.

Microsoft and Google do to, it's just that they're not as popular as AWS.

They're not re-skinning or re-selling Redis, they're selling a separate product - the managed operations for operating and scaling Redis.

You may not appreciate this (most on HN never do - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224) But the value is evident to thousands of customers.