Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made a long-term investment in OpenSearch, its open-source alternative to Elasticsearch. The project has emerged as a credible competitor, garnering well over 100 ...

AWS still has a long way to go, and its OpenSearch success doesn’t seem to be blunting Elastic’s income statement. It turns out that there can and should be many winners in open source.

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 ...

Support for the OpenSearch Software Foundation is being provided by premier members AWS and Uber and general members Aiven, Aryn, Canonical, Eliatra, Graylog, NetApp Instaclustr, and Portal26.

Amazon recently announced the general availability of OpenSearch Serverless, a new serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch service, which automatically provisions and scales the underlying resources f ...

AWS first launched the OpenSearch project in 2021, after Elastic changed its license for its Elasticsearch and Kibana projects to its own proprietary license, the Elastic License.

Karnik noted that AWS expects to grow its contributions to OpenSearch. Back in 2021, a foundation wasn’t on the roadmap yet, but bringing the project into its own foundation now feels like the ...

AWS’s choice to contribute to the OpenSearch project will also enable it to tap into the expertise of the Linux Foundation, which is renowned for its management and growth of open-source projects. The ...