Amazon does provide some support for FreeBSD -- they paid for the ENA driver to be ported and maintained, for example. And they include FreeBSD in their CI system; if a change to EC2 infrastructure would make FreeBSD stop booting, they'll notice and fix it long before it gets deployed. They've also been very generous with AWS resources, both letting me spin up lots of instances and hosting mirrors on an ongoing basis.
I continue to hope that some day they'll invent some sort of "part-time contractor" position to provide me with ongoing funding for FreeBSD/EC2 work, but I certainly understand the argument that they should pay for EC2 specific work (like ENA) but not for FreeBSD development.
I continue to hope that some day they'll invent some sort of "part-time contractor" position to provide me with ongoing funding for FreeBSD/EC2 work, but I certainly understand the argument that they should pay for EC2 specific work (like ENA) but not for FreeBSD development.