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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by mvanbaak on Friday January 22, 2021 @06:11AM (#25870613)
'AND THEY WILL ALWAYS DO IT CHEAPER BECAUSE THEY DONT HAVE TO FUND FURTHER DEVELOPMENT.' Well, they DID actually contribute patches as the whole ES project was 'upstream-first', this is mentioned in the post with proofs.

From what I can find online, it looks like DocumentDB is actually a layer on top of the AWS Aurora PostgreSQL offering. This means they created a MongoDB compatible API, but are not offering a hosted mongodb cluster. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18870397)

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by soenkeliebau on Friday January 22, 2021 @09:17AM (#25871825)
Without wanting to come down on either side of the argument I'd like to say that the Pull Requests they reference in the blog post are over a span of roughly two years and touched somewhere in the vicinity of 1k lines of code. One of them changed one line by adding a synchronized modifier to a function..

I'd not consider that actively developing a product and adding new features.

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by petejohnson on Friday January 22, 2021 @08:15PM (#25878533)
> Well, they DID actually contribute patches as the whole ES project was 'upstream-first', this is mentioned in the post with proofs.

Elasticsearch has 35000 pull requests merged. Amazon did 9 of those giving them a contributor ratio of 0.026%.

Amazon's contributions to Elasticsearch and Kibana are purely symbolic. This makes their claim as new stewards of the projects even more laughable.

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