Plenty of businesses compete with AWS just fine. Looking at Elastic Co's financials, they also appear to be competing just fine. If they tell you they're not,

Plenty of businesses compete with AWS just fine. Looking at Elastic Co's financials, they also appear to be competing just fine. If they tell you they're not, what they're actually saying is that they've chosen a poor business model. In this case, it looks like they've got a perfectly reasonable business, but they're upset it's not even bigger, and therefore they'd like a monopoly over ES hosting. > It is monopolistic behavior and that is harmful. The irony is strong here.