On the GNOME Foundation blog today is an interesting post how Amazon Web Services (AWS) has ended up sponsoring and powering all of the GNOME web infrastructure.

It's not only been [1]FreeDesktop.org going through a major server/cloud transition recently (along with [2]other open-source projects ). In the case of GNOME they recently overhauled their web infrastructure and wasn't in the same boat as the other open-source projects recently transitioning services due to losing sponsorship but GNOME wanted to move past their on-premise infrastructure.

Over the past five years the GNOME project has run into more network and storage challenges as the project has grown along with the number of hosted projects under the GNOME umbrella as part of their GNOME Circle initiative. After having success using Amazon S3 buckets that were sponsored via the AWS Open-Source Credits program, they ended up asking Amazon for sponsorship of their entire infrastructure, which was "kindly accepted" by the major cloud provider.

GNOME's two engineers managing their web infrastructure have now adapted to the AWS landscape to provide more robust service for GNOME users and developers. They are making use of all of the AWS capabilities from Elastic Load Balancing to the Elastic Block Store and the in-house Graviton processors.

More details on the GNOME transition to the AWS infrastructure via the [3]GNOME Foundation Blog .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FDo-GitLab-Migrate-Begins

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Alpine-Linux-Infra-Crisis

[3] https://foundation.gnome.org/2025/06/10/gnome-has-a-new-infrastructure-partner-welcome-aws/