It grants them a two-year headspace in which licensees are prohibited to create a competing offering based on the open sourced code—so e.g. Amazon can't just take the source code and create a paid offering within AWS without contributing to upstream—at least for two years after officially licensing the software.
One thing I don't understand though is the license.
> Fully open source (MIT) after two years under our Functional Source License (FSL).
What exactly does this mean?