InfluxDB Open Source offers a lightweight, self-managed option for deploying time series databases anywhere, allowing developers to work on their data even without network connectivity. This complements InfluxDB Cloud by providing an alternative for use cases where cloud-based scalability and reliability are not needed, such as air-gapped environments or edge devices with limited compute resources. InfluxDB OSS can also be used in conjunction with InfluxDB Cloud, allowing customers to dual-write data to both local instances and cloud-based instances, ensuring data synchronization and backup. Additionally, InfluxDB OSS provides a foundation for building custom solutions, such as air-gapped monitoring, where no internet connection is available. By leveraging the same API, CLI, web user interface, and client libraries between InfluxDB OSS and Cloud, developers can easily share assets and findings with each other.