Although the distro is available on its cloud now, its real value for AWS may come down the road, if other vendors adopt it for their platforms.
Cloud-based architectures and open source should be a natural fit, but success stories like Kubernetes are the exception, not the rule.
Progress Software's CEO is optimistic that the addition of Chef will better position his company to meet the growing demands of DevOps.
The August release of Istio 1.7 indicates that the continuing controversy around the open source service mesh project's governance hasn't affected ongoing development.