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> AWS knows that if they take too much of ES' market that they won't survive. If they don't survive it will just be a matter of time before ES is dropped by Amazon and totally unsupported.

I don't get how you came to this conclusion.

If Elastic goes bust, why would Amazon suddenly drop support for product? They have customers paying millions for the service, why the heck would they drop it?

If anything I would expect Amazon to keep the service and work harder to ensure good service, so they can absorb that portion of the market not being served.