AWS today announced that it is transitioning OpenSearch, its open source fork of the popular Elasticsearch search and analytics engine, to the Linux Foundation with the launch of the very aptly named ...

A twisty, years-long brouhaha centered around open-source licensing has taken another turn, with an Amazon Web Services (AWS) project based on Elasticsearch being turned over to a new group under the ...

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 ...

Open-source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana will be supported by the newly formed OpenSearch Software Foundation, whose members include AWS, Uber, Canonical, and Aiven. Amazon Web Services is ...

OpenSearch shouldn’t exist. The open source alternative to Elasticsearch started off as Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) answer to getting outflanked by Elastic’s change in Elasticsearch’s license, which ...

If breaking up is hard to do, as Neil Sedaka sang years ago, forking an open source project is even harder. Amazon Web Services forked ElasticSearch in 2021, citing the need to “ensure open source ...

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, "=""> ...