Amazon flings open source Elasticsearch at Big Data's cloud

Amazon is rolling out open-source Elasticsearch for consumers of its mega cloud. The giant has launched Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES), adding another NoSQL-based big-data analytics and query option. The idea is to let you load, process and analyse unstructured data. Elasticsearch on AWS can be deployed to Amazon …

[elDog]

Makes sense. They're already performing all sorts of analyses on your data

Why not take advantage of their tools, tools.

[Anonymous Coward]

Does Amazon actually give anything back?

It seems nearly all EC2 products are based upon Open Source stacks, but I cannot recall ever hearing Amazon giving anything back or releasing any of its own tools or even sponsoring an Open Source project - As a company who has built an empire monetizing other peoples hard work, it would be nice to see them return something (Even Netflix open sources its in-house security tools).

Perhaps I'm wrong, and they do...

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Does Amazon actually give anything back?

Schizophrenic apparently, from 2014:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/22/amazon_open_source_investigation/