> No matter how you slice it, I think Amazon is bad for us end-users, and Elastic is good. I don't think that's clear. I (and the team I work with) use AWS, li

> No matter how you slice it, I think Amazon is bad for us end-users, and Elastic is good. I don't think that's clear. I (and the team I work with) use AWS, like so many of us do. (And the ones who don't very likely use Azure or GCP.) Why do we give money to AWS (and their kin) every month? I'd submit it's because we're getting value from it. If AWS was actually bad for end users then we, as end users, would walk away. If you were right, and AWS was bad and Elastic is good, this would be an easy problem. But actually, they're both good. The issue is people who paid AWS to host ES instead of Elastic, and you know who those people are? Us. And with reason!