AWS got Elastic's goodies for free. They just came in and gobbled up all of that value for themselves like vultures. Meanwhile the people putting in the work effectively got robbed.
Small companies should stop doing open source and switch to source available + MAU/ARR restriction clauses.
What on earth? Elastic is a multi-billion dollar company. They are no indie startup, scrappy underdog nor are they victims here.
AWS took the high road during this fiasco despite Elastic's mudslinging and flailing about.
> AWS took the high road during this fiasco despite Elastic's mudslinging and flailing about.
They didn't start as a multi-billion dollar company. In fact, AWS started shipping their Elasticsearch Service in 2015. Public records show that Elastic's annual revenue in 12 months after their IPO in 2018 was ~200m with <1000 employees.
I'd argue that Elastic is a multi-billion dollar company _in spite_ of AWS.