Elastic has made numerous attempts to disrupt Amazon’s adoption of its software — including an ongoing trademark infringement lawsuit filed against Amazon in 2017 — but says it took its recent drastic move to prevent Amazon from selling its software without collaborating with the company. “If you don’t stand up at one point to this level of behavior, then it’s like a bully in the schoolyard,” says Elastic’s CEO Shay Banon. “And this is our form of standing up to it.
Since 2018, at least four other multi-billion dollar companies — Redis Labs, Cockroach Labs, Confluent and publicly-traded MongoDB — have changed their software licenses to block Amazon from reselling their software to AWS’ massive customer base.
In October, a House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee cited Amazon’s use of Elasticsearch as one example of harming innovation in the open source community. “Amazon’s conduct has already led several open-source projects to become more closed, a move driven by a need for protection from Amazon’s misappropriation,” the reportAndy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, is set to take replace Jeff Bezos as Amazon CEO. He has overseen the cloud division's success since it launched in 2006.
philshapiro
they're just mad Amazon is making more money off of their product.
Do you think this is what people really need right now?