In our recent open letter and blog post on sustainable stewardship of open source infrastructure, we called on the industry to take a more active role in supporting the systems and services that drive today’s software innovation. Today, we’re excited to share a powerful example of what that kind of leadership looks like in action.
The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made a significant investment to strengthen the reliability, performance, and security of the open infrastructure that supports millions of developers around the world. This commitment will benefit multiple core services, including Open VSX Registry, the open source registry for Visual Studio Code extensions that powers AI-enabled development environments such as Kiro and other leading tools.
Sustaining the backbone of open source innovation
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. Its privately hosted systems deliver more than 500 million downloads each month across services such as download.eclipse.org, the Eclipse Marketplace, and Open VSX. These platforms serve as the backbone for individuals, organisations, and communities that rely on open collaboration to build the technologies of the future.
AWS’s investment will help improve performance, reliability, and security across this infrastructure. The collaboration reflects a shared commitment to keeping open source systems resilient, transparent, and sustainable at global scale.
Open VSX: a model for sustainable open infrastructure
Open VSX is a vendor-neutral, open source (EPL-2.0) registry for Visual Studio Code extensions. It serves as the default registry for Kiro, Amazon’s AI IDE platform, and is relied upon by a growing global community of developers. The registry now hosts over 7,000 extensions from nearly 5,000 publishers and delivers in excess of 110 million downloads per month. As a leading registry serving developer communities worldwide, including JavaScript and AI development communities, Open VSX has become a vital piece of open source infrastructure that supports thousands of development teams worldwide.
By supporting Open VSX, AWS is helping to strengthen the foundations of this essential service and reinforcing the Eclipse Foundation’s ability to provide secure, reliable, and globally accessible infrastructure. Their contribution reflects the importance of collective investment in maintaining the resilience, openness, and security of the tools developers use every day.
This sponsorship highlights the shared responsibility that all organisations have in sustaining the technologies they depend on. It also sets a strong example of how industry leaders can contribute to ensuring that the services we all rely on remain trustworthy, scalable, and sustainable for the future.
Improving reliability, security, and trust
The AWS investment is helping strengthen security, ensuring fair access, and improving long-term service reliability. Ongoing work focuses on enhancing malware detection, improving traffic management, and expanding operational monitoring to ensure a stable and trusted experience for developers around the world.
As part of this collaboration, AWS is providing infrastructure and services that will improve availability, performance, and scalability across these systems. This support will accelerate key roadmap initiatives and help ensure that the platforms developers rely on remain secure, scalable, and trustworthy well into the future.
A shared commitment to open source sustainability
AWS’s contribution demonstrates how industry leaders can make strategic investments in sustaining the shared infrastructure their businesses depend on every day. By investing in the services that support open source development, AWS is helping to ensure that critical technologies remain open, reliable, and accessible to everyone.
The Eclipse Foundation continues to serve as an independent steward of open source infrastructure, maintaining the tools and systems that enable software innovation across industries. Together with supporters like AWS, we are building a stronger foundation for the future of open collaboration.
But this is only the beginning. The long-term health of open source infrastructure depends on collective action and shared responsibility. We encourage other organisations to follow AWS’s example and take an active role in sustaining the technologies that make modern development possible.
Learn how your organisation can make a difference through Eclipse Foundation membership or direct sponsorship opportunities. The future of open innovation depends on all of us; and together, we can keep it strong, secure, and sustainable.
