Amazon Web Services ships own open-source flavor of Elasticsearch, insists it's not trying to fork developers off

This is not a split, insists rent-a-server biz, but time will tell

In an effort to keep code for the Elasticsearch project untainted by proprietary bits, Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday released a downstream distribution called Open Distro for Elasticsearch that the company promises is "100 per cent open source" under the Apache 2.0 license."