id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt www-geekwire-com-1702 With its Elasticsearch distribution, Amazon Web Services sends more shockwaves through open-source software - GeekWire .html text/html 2704 149 62 With its Elasticsearch distribution, Amazon Web Services sends more shockwaves through open-source software GeekWire Just about anything that Amazon Web Services does has massive ripple effects throughout this world, and last week's decision to release its own open-source version of Elasticsearch, a popular engine for searching and analyzing internal company data maintained by newly public company Elastic, was no exception. Elasticsearch was first released as an open-source project in 2009, when startups on a budget were the primary customers for cloud computing. Companies that might have used open-source projects as part of applications running on their own servers and paid companies like Elasticsearch for premium features are now running on AWS, and it's very easy to use the AWS version of an enterprise tech service once you're already on the platform. Cloud wars: Amazon Web Services to open new office just down the road from Microsoft HQ ./cache/www-geekwire-com-1702.html ./txt/www-geekwire-com-1702.txt