AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana

Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by IgorPartola on Thursday January 21, 2021 @08:00PM (#25866912)

So Amazon forking ES is then ensuring that if Elastic dies, ElasticSearch doesn’t go away, right? Part of the problem here really is that if I am using AWS for the rest of my stack, why would I run my search elsewhere, introducing latency, etc? Elastic’s opportunity was to approach AWS and try to get bought. But their business model really isn’t as good as it seems.

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by MoOmer on Thursday January 21, 2021 @08:27PM (#25867074)

Elastic's Cloud offering runs in the major cloud providers [0].

https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions/cloud

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by IgorPartola on Thursday January 21, 2021 @08:46PM (#25867209)

Is it better than AWS’s implementation?

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by patmorgan23 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @09:24PM (#25867510)

And/or cost competitive.

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by theamk on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:10PM (#25868217)

Looking at a single machine (i3.large, 15GB ram, 470GB SD):

Raw EC2 costs: $0.156/hr or $112/month

AWS Elasticsearch: $0.25/hr or $180/month

Elastic's Elasticsearch: $0.3375/hr or $243/month (price stays about the same for 1, 2 or 3 nodes)

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by IgorPartola on Friday January 22, 2021 @07:25AM (#25871078)

So if we assume the level of service is not much better, AWS is the more prudent choice, no? So trademark issues aside, AWS does ES better than Elastic?

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by budlightvirus on Friday January 22, 2021 @08:12AM (#25871369)

To me that would depend on whether AWS Elasticsearch is actually profitable at that price point, or whether they are running at a loss to grab market share.

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by IgorPartola on Friday January 22, 2021 @08:37AM (#25871516)

The quality of the service you get depends on if AWS makes a profit?

Also, do you think they make a profit on the bare EC2 instance? If so, why do you think that running a few management scripts that manage ES running on it would add up to more than $0.094/hour?

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