In a blog post, AWS explained that since Elastic is no longer making its search and analytic engine Elasticsearch and its companion data visualization dashboard Kibana available as open source, "=""> ...

True, as Elastic stated, "This change in source code licensing has no impact on the overwhelming majority of our user community who use our default distribution for free. It also has no impact on our ...

The battle between public cloud providers and venture capital-sponsored “open source” companies has taken an interesting new turn. When Elastic, makers of the open source search and analytic engine ...

Last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it was launching an open source value-added distribution for search and analytics engine Elasticsearch. As AWS evangelist Jeff Barr put it, the launch ...

In 2021, Elastic moved to closed source licenses after several years of conflict with Amazon’s cloud subsidiary AWS, which was selling its own managed version of Elasticsearch. While AWS was perfectly ...

When AWS ships other companies’ open source code as its own, it’s hard for the code to stay open source. That says something about cloud competition versus partnerships. The big news in the open ...