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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by ywei3410 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @09:54PM (#25867756)
If becoming one of the most valuable companies in the world in an adjacent field and using that to fund an open source SaaS is a demonstration of a financially viable open source business; we're in trouble.
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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by alphager on Friday January 22, 2021 @04:14AM (#25869879)
Going from the frankly insane pricing for managed ES on AWS (we tried it, were happy with the service and massively disappointed in the pprice, now manage our own on AWS), Amazon makes enough money from the SaaS to fund it.
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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by jrochkind1 on Friday January 22, 2021 @09:16AM (#25871820)
How does the price compare to other managed ES including from the ES founders?

If it's super non-competitive high, it is even more curious they seem to see it as such a threat. I'm becoming increasingly unsure if they actually see it as a threat, or if it's just like "nobody should be able to make money from our open source without giving us a cut".

Or is it just that all managed ES seems too expensive to you?

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