The Linux Foundation announced at Open Source Summit Europe in Prague that Amazon Web Services has become a Platinum Member, its highest level of membership, giving AWS representation on the foundation’s board of directors. The release frames the step as an expansion of more than a decade of AWS participation, noting that AWS transferred OpenSearch into the OpenSearch Software Foundation in 2024 and is a founding member of the Akrites initiative and the Agentic AI Foundation. AWS now holds active memberships in 25 Linux Foundation projects and foundations, is a Platinum Member of the Agentic AI Foundation, CNCF, the PyTorch Foundation and the Yocto Project, and is a premier member of groups including the Academy Software Foundation, Alpha-Omega, the FinOps Foundation, the Jupyter Foundation, OpenSSF, the Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance, Valkey and the x402 Foundation. CEO Jim Zemlin said sustaining open source requires long-term investment from the companies that build on it, and AWS head of open source Stormy Peters said AWS looks for a neutral home when it builds infrastructure that solves a problem beyond AWS.
AWS becomes a Platinum Member of the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation announced at Open Source Summit Europe in Prague that Amazon Web Services has become a Platinum Member, its highest level of membership, giving AWS representation on the foundation's board of directors. The release frames the step as an expansion of more than a decade of AWS participation, noting that AWS transferred OpenSearch into the OpenSearch Software Foundation in 2024 and is a founding member of the Akrites initiative and the Agentic AI Foundation. AWS now holds active memberships in 25 Linux Foundation projects and foundations, is a Platinum Member of the Agentic AI Foundation, CNCF, the PyTorch Foundation and the Yocto Project, and is a premier member of groups including the Academy Software Foundation, Alpha-Omega, the FinOps Foundation, the Jupyter Foundation, OpenSSF, the Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance, Valkey and the x402 Foundation. CEO Jim Zemlin said sustaining open source requires long-term investment from the companies that build on it, and AWS head of open source Stormy Peters said AWS looks for a neutral home when it builds infrastructure that solves a problem beyond AWS.
Source: Linux Foundation