Supporters AMI #66
Description
fck-nat can save organizations a lot of money over NAT Gateways and fck-nat will always be free and open-source, but to assist with development and hosting costs, I want to put the idea out there of creating a marketplace AMI for fck-nat.
The idea would be that the marketplace AMI would include a 1% surcharge on the underlying instance hourly. Consumers could opt-in to using the "supporters" AMI instead of the freely available one in order to help support the project. Companies who opt-in could also be featured as sponsors in the fck-nat documentation.
I by no means wish to alienate any existing fck-nat users and this would always and forever be a very explicit opt-in option. No pushy "have you considered sponsoring?" messages in the free AMI, just a section in the docs letting people know the option is available and a default off toggle in the CDK construct to use the supporter AMI instead.
I'd love to hear thoughts on this from the community. Would you consider being a supporter? Does the whole idea turn you off of fck-nat? Let me know!