Server-side licensing leads to hike in public cloud prices Changes made over the last year or so to protect open source revenue streams is starting to impact public cloud managed service costs Share this item with your network: By Published: 10 May 2021 14:28 Server-side types of licensing are starting to hurt some public cloud customers, according to a new study looking at the move away from open source licensing. More than half of the IT professionals who took part in a recent Vanson Bourne survey for Percona believe that public cloud providers need to do more to support open source companies. Public clouds rely heavily on open source IT infrastructure, and although the big providers do contribute some of their internal tech to the open source community, there has been a growing trend to develop managed services, based on popular open source products.