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“Our license change is aimed at preventing companies from taking our Elasticsearch and Kibana products and providing them directly as a service without collaborating with us.”

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Elastic gave away its code and acted shocked when the biggest cloud took it. Amazon launched Amazon Elasticsearch Service in 2015, name and all. Elastic’s answer is a license that is no longer open source. Amazon behaved badly, and every outside contributor pays for the fix.