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Amazon Web Services Makes Open-Source Infrastructure Investment

• By John K. Waters
• November 11, 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has committed funding to the Eclipse Foundation to enhance the performance, reliability, and security of its open‑source infrastructure, according to a recent blog post.

The investment will support core services maintained by the foundation — including the Open VSX Registry, which supplies extensions for the Visual Studio Code code editor and powers AI-enabled development, among other tools.

According to the post, AWS’s contribution will improve infrastructure resiliency by bolstering malware detection, traffic‑management capacity and operational monitoring.

"For more than two decades, the Eclipse Foundation has quietly maintained open infrastructure that forms the foundation of modern software creation for millions of software developers worldwide," said the foundation's executive director Mike Milinkovich, said in the post. "Its privately hosted systems deliver more than 500 million downloads each month across services such as the Eclipse Marketplace and Open VSX. These platforms serve as the backbone for individuals, organizations, and communities that rely on open collaboration to build the technologies of the future."

Eclipse said the collaboration signals shared responsibility in sustaining open‑source systems at global scale and urged other organizations to follow the example.

There are no immediate product announcements tied to the investment, and the firms did not provide a dollar figure in the blog post. Moderately sized but targeted, the funding underscores a widening trend of cloud service providers backing open-source foundations that support their developer ecosystems.