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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by ocdtrekkie on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:12PM (#25867884)
On the contrary, this is win-win for everyone: Amazon now has to make their fork competitive with Elastic's, so they'll have to invest more resources in open source development. Elastic is also still free to grab their Apache-licensed improvements.

Meanwhile, if Elastic's future improvements are better than AWS', it'll drive use of their services over Amazon's.

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by paulryanrogers on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:51PM (#25868439)
> if Elastic's future improvements are better than AWS', it'll drive use of their services over Amazon's.

Except Amazon has a moat: no egress fees and network effects. AWS is starting the race way ahead.

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by __blockcipher__ on Friday January 22, 2021 @02:04AM (#25869220)
Elastic doesn't need to make more money than Amazon. They just need to be able to make enough to have a healthy business, and so far they've achieved that. $500MM yearly revenue with 40+% growth is nothing to scoff at.

It really seems like Elastic's motivation here is jealousy more than anything else. Which I understand from an emotional perspective, but from a logical perspective it's a big business blunder they've made IMO.

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by __blockcipher__ on Friday January 22, 2021 @02:03AM (#25869212)
I totally agree, I think this is great for the community because the writing was on the wall ever since the initial X-pack source-available drama as well as the original OpenDistro drama.

I think this will be better for all involved.

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