Aiven joins the OpenSearch® community

Aiven has announced its intention to join the community forming around the new fork of OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards, spearheaded by AWS. The company is eagerly awaiting the first iteration of the OpenSearch project and looks forward to being an active contributor. This move comes after Elastic.io's announcement of a change in their licensing policy that no longer permits Elasticsearch to be offered as a service to third parties. Aiven, along with other companies, took a stance for open source, leading to the upcoming open-source fork for Elasticsearch and Kibana. The new project includes OpenSearch (from Elasticsearch 7.10.2), OpenSearch Dashboards (from Kibana 7.10.2), and Open Distro for Elasticsearch (providing additional features). Everything will be released under the Apache Licence Version 2.0, free to modify, extend, embed, monetize, resell and offer as a service.