Yes, I did this with my wife, and it was a fantastic experience. She was able to design the ring exactly how she wanted, and working closely with the jeweller allowed us to ask all the right questions and get personalised advice.

You could also consider using a temporary ‘semi-set mount’ for the proposal. Then afterwards you could go to a jeweller and have them create the perfect ring to your specifications.

Now, 6 or 7 years my wife has a big birthday coming up and I’m considering a diamond pendant - when I bought the diamond for the engagement ring there was far fewer options but now there’s lots of places online. LooseGrownDiamond seems very competitive but if you find anywhere better priced I’d be interested!

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AWS don't report outages until it's undoubtedly them.

> Maps – Amazon Location Service lets you create maps that make use of data from our partners. You can choose between maps and map styles provided by Esri and by HERE Technologies, with the potential for more maps & more styles from these and other partners in the future.

Amazon has dropped a ton of cash into maps. They won't use google for.. reasons, and there's a pretty limited selection of providers, including OSS offerings. A lot of this data has probably been enriched by the logistics arm.

Openstreetmap is behind apple maps, facebook maps, and much of mapbox, if I understand it right.

here.com ? (That's what Amazon UK uses for ___location tracking maps)

Amazon has been using HERE maps internally for many years. It was the map included in the Fire phone and tablet, and also it's used in the online shop, such as for showing the parcel on the map, among other things. When I left HERE it was also heavily using AWS, so it's a two-way relationship.

For those who may not be familiar with HERE, they're huge on Enterprise, especially in Automotive, logistics but also on public sector.

HERE used to be part of Nokia and used to power their maps application. It's now owned by a wide consortium where the well-known German car making companies still have a majority. They also heavily use HERE maps and ___location based services, as many other car makers do. Not sure if they still do, but when I left, it was heavily used by Microsoft for Bing maps. Yahoo and Facebook maps were all based on the HERE map data and used many of the the same backend services.

Note: I currently work at AWS and previously worked at HERE but this message is not written on behalf of my current/former employer.

maybe mapbox?

Another bold innovative move from AWS.

To be honest, charging for things that other people have created and released for free _is_ pretty bold! ha

Is it bold? If a group of people put something together and release the details for free, they have to expect others will profit off of it. This is the fate of all useful open source software that doesn't have some kind of no-commercial clause (which potentially moves it outside the ideals of open source as it restricts the use of the source code).

Not really. This has been going on for decades. Examples: early web hosts running the LAMP stack: Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP. Eventually people put an admin UI on top (control panels, like Plesk and cPanel.) The core functionality is all free software. The value is not having to configure and manage all that stuff yourself.

You are still free to use the free open source version.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with charging for this. Have you heard of "Wordpress hosting" for example?