Every DB company - from giants like Oracle and MS to newcomers like Scylla and Cockroach - is pushing Cloud Service as their primary revenue model. At least for the growth of their business.<p>It's shocking to see them shut down the Cloud Service in favor of selling plain old on-prem Enterprise Support contracts. Hard to understand.<p>Anyone here a user of the cloud service? Was it just unable to compete against RDS, Aurora and the like? Too commodity?
This is a real kick in the teeth for existing skysql customers.<p>Xpand though? That's really silly. It's a great engine. Maybe Samsung could buy it? I wouldn't be surprised if we saw their published efforts eventually into migrating to some like ScyllaDB or FoundationDB.