So If I am hosting my own opensource of Rudder but using the Rudder Hosted Control Plane, Why do I still need to upgrade to a paid plan just to ingest data from my S3 Warehouse?

Hi Chris, reverse ETL is available only in RudderStack hosted cloud data plane. Here's a detailed comparison of features available in Open-Source vs Cloud data plane https://www.rudderstack.com/docs/get-started/cloud-vs-open-source/

Interesting, but if the version you can host yourself is so limited won't that also limit your customer base? For instance we can't use Rudders hosted version as it wouldn't be able to comply with all the data regulations we have to follow. Is there no hybrid solution?

Thank you for the feedback. My focus area is RudderStack Open Source, so I am keen to understand more and pitch your suggestions to the team internally. Which data regulation do you have to follow and what stops you following them while using the hosted version?

We have to follow Regulations in europe which is GDPR we also have to be able to accommodate mainland China.

ReverseETL is different than simple event ingestion. With RudderStack Open Source, you can send events to your warehouse/S3, from your apps, websites, internal systems, etc. But if you need to trigger the flow in reverse i.e. from your warehouse to other systems, that is not supported by the OSS at the moment.

we are not doing Reverse ETL

I see. That is doable via open-source

I solved the problem, Had to make changes to the Trust relationship in AWS IAM for the Rudder Role for it to assume the permissions to write

Thank you for sharing the update and the solution 🙏