Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service

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Post by daigoba66 » Wed, Sep 08, 2021, 11:14 PM UTC

Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service
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Post by google234123 » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 12:19 AM UTC

This is consequence of open source.

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Post by simlevesque » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 12:24 AM UTC

I changed from AWS managed ElasticSearch to Elastic.co a couple of months ago. Should have done it sooner.

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Post by 0x500x79 » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 12:25 AM UTC

google234123 wrote: post #2

This is consequence of open source.

Are you claiming this is a bad thing? Your statement doesn't have a whole lot of meat in it without elaborating a bit.

There were a lot of decisions and changes that were made that led to this happening, and we have no idea how it ends up.

I personally am interested to see what happens in the elasticsearch versus opensearch space. I want to see how this experiment plays out.

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Post by RONROC » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 12:28 AM UTC

Here’s what Elasticsearch thinks:

https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/08/07/0040229/elasticsear...

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Post by Sebb767 » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 12:30 AM UTC

As far as I'm aware, this is the first major "hostile" fork AWS has done. In fact, it's probably one of the largest ones overall. It will be really interesting to see how this plays out in the long run.

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Post by atonse » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 12:39 AM UTC

simlevesque wrote: post #3

I changed from AWS managed ElasticSearch to Elastic.co a couple of months ago. Should have done it sooner.

Why? Tech or on principle? We are using Amazon ES but leaves a lot to be desired.

But I don’t know how much of that is just ES and how much is Amazon

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Post by josephcsible » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 12:40 AM UTC

Remember that in this story, as strange as this is to say, Amazon is the good guy. Elastic changed their products from a FOSS license to a proprietary one, and Amazon did exactly what you're supposed to do in that case: fork and continue development of the last FOSS version.

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Post by fshbbdssbbgdd » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 12:43 AM UTC

If I was a mole for Amazon working at Elasticsearch, I can’t think of a better way to accelerate the shift onto AWS’s offering than breaking client comparability with previous versions of Elasticsearch. If a customer needs to upgrade the client for some reason, they are forced to update the server as well. Maybe they’ll just update the client and server to OpenSearch while they’re at it so they don’t have any more forced updates in the future.

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Post by wmf » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 12:43 AM UTC

josephcsible wrote: post #8

Remember that in this story, as strange as this is to say, Amazon is the good guy. Elastic changed their products from a FOSS license to a proprietary one, and Amazon did exactly what you're supposed to do in that case: fork and continue development of the last FOSS version.

They changed the license after Amazon took all their revenue.