Neither. Right now AWS seems to be acting in the best interest of the ElasticSearch community, but this doesn't extend to open source as a whole. For the long-

Neither. Right now AWS seems to be acting in the best interest of the ElasticSearch community, but this doesn't extend to open source as a whole. For the long-term, the open source community should look to projects where the center of gravity is outside of an open core or FANG company. ElasticSearch went open core a while ago, and Elastic's form of open core is more like MongoDB or Redis than it is like nginx or Docker. As for Amazon, I think I'd rank them below facebook, and I would rank facebook below google and Microsoft, as stewards of open source projects.