Amazon has donated OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation, who has announced that it wll be part of the newly formed OpenSearch Software Foundation, a community-driven initiative under the Linux Foundation.  OpenSearch is an open source search and analytics suite that began life as an open source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana.

Elasticsearch is a distributed open search and analytics engine for all types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured. Elasticsearch is built on Apache Lucene, and is used for a variety of applications and visualization tools including Kibana, Elastic’s analytics and visualization platform.

OpenSearch was first created after Elastic moved the licensing model for Elasticsearch to dual licensing using the Server Side Public License (SSPL) and its own Elastic License. This was seen making Elastic no longer open source. A major driver for the move was Elastic's unhappiness with the way AWS was using the open-source version of Elastic stack as their AWS Elasticsearch managed service.

Amazon reacted by creating OpenSearch, which they described as an open source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana. The project also became the new home for Amazon's distribution of Elasticsearch (Open Distro for Elasticsearch), which included features such as enterprise security, alerting, machine learning, SQL, and index state management.

Since that start, AWS has been the OpenSearch project's steward though there was a Leadership Committee consisting of a majority of non-AWS members. Amazon says that moving to a vendor-neutral foundation will "present more opportunities for organizations to get involved with OpenSearch".

Amazon has now donated the project to the Linux Foundation, who has launched the OpenSearch Software Foundation, which they say will work with community maintainers and developers, as well as founding member organizations, to support the continued growth of OpenSearch.

The OpenSearch Software Foundation launches with support from premier members AWS, SAP, and Uber and general members Aiven, Aryn, Atlassian, Canonical, DigitalOcean, Eliatra, Graylog, NetApp® Instaclustr, and Portal26. The foundation will support the OpenSearch Project, which has been organized as an open technical project within the Linux Foundation, overseen by a technical steering committee.

Nandini Ramani, Vice President of Search and Cloud Operations at AWS, said that transferring OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation sets the project up for its next stage of growth:

"With vendor-neutral governance that invites greater collaboration, along with programming and operational resources to further nurture the community."

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