[sickmate]

>The issue that Elastic had is that their entire business model was offering a managed elasticsearch solution. Amazon then created their own offering of the same thing

Amazon first offered Elasticsearch as a managed service in 2015. Elastic began offering managed services in 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch#Managed_services

[nemo44x]

That’s not true. Elastic acquired Found in 2015 and immediately offered their managed Elasticsearch service. It was publicly announced at their user conference early that year.