[Spivak]

You do realize that Amazon would have been happy selling hosting for the official Elastic code until Elastic forced them into a situation where the pull the rug out of all of their customers or fork?

Amazon is actually the more open company when it comes to Elastic at this point. Open source does best when it’s not the meal ticket of the company developing it.

[nijave]

It's a bit clunky, but Amazon's fork also comes with security by default. ES open-by-default has caused breaches for years. Amazon's is a bit clunky to setup but at least comes with defaults where you are less likely to leak your data