Just noticed that Jeff Bar from AWS is a keynote speaker at HashiConf 2018[1]. This is purely hand-waving speculation, but could Amazon possibly be announcing an acquisition of HashiCorp?> Keynote by Jeff Barr, VP and Chief Evangalist for Amazon Web Services. More details coming soon.
[1] https://www.hashiconf.com/schedule?day=Conference%20Day%20Two#jeff-barr