Open source has never been more popular. It’s also never been more contentious. With hundreds of billions of dollars available to the companies that best turn open source into easy-to-use cloud ...

OpenSearch shouldn’t exist. The open source alternative to Elasticsearch started off as Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) answer to getting outflanked by Elastic’s change in Elasticsearch’s license, which ...

A twisty, years-long brouhaha centered around open-source licensing has taken another turn, with an Amazon Web Services (AWS) project based on Elasticsearch being turned over to a new group under the ...

If breaking up is hard to do, as Neil Sedaka sang years ago, forking an open source project is even harder. Amazon Web Services forked ElasticSearch in 2021, citing the need to “ensure 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 named ...