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Amazon came in and took a bunch of that money while not giving anything back. Amazon is giving a lot back to the community, though. They are providing a really
by lacker 6y ago
Amazon came in and took a bunch of that money while not giving anything back.
Amazon is giving a lot back to the community, though. They are providing a really valuable service when they provide open source software as a service. They aren't giving back to Elastic the company, but it's important to note the difference, because Amazon isn't being a bad actor here. I think it's reasonable for both Amazon and Elastic to act the way they do, and I think the competition between their respective business models will end up in a better set of products available to developers.
- cmiles74 6y agoI would bet that if Elastic disappeared we'd see this offering stagnate. Amazon has put time and energy into work making the service but little (AFAICT) into the Elasticsearch product itself. In my opinion this is a short-sighted way for Amazon to do business. If Elastic makes every new feature unusable by Amazon, do to licensing restrictions, Amazon's product will fall behind.