The claim that Amazon says they work with Elastic for their service is bogus. I've asked many times, and its been made clear to me that they have some addition

The claim that Amazon says they work with Elastic for their service is bogus. I've asked many times, and its been made clear to me that they have some additional services they run, but aside from those run upstream Elasticsearch. (Same with Kubernetes). Elastic's licensing is very hard to navigate, and the per node nature of it often makes it more cost prohibitive than Splunk. Hopefully this is a wakeup call to Elastic to start delivering value that can't simply be added by third party contributions. If thats the case, what purpose is Elastic (corporation) actually fulfilling?