AWS Brings OpenSearch to Linux
AWS has announced that OpenSearch is being transferred to the Linux Foundation and will operate under the new name OpenSearch Foundation.
OpenSearch is an open source data analytics platform developed by AWS for a range of business applicationssuch as analysis logging, application monitoring and web search.
Jon Handler, Director of Solutions Architecture for Search Services at AWS, said the transfer of OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation will deepen the project’s original goal when it launched in 2021 to “ensure that users continue to have a secure, high-performance, fully open-source search and analytics suite with an extensive roadmap of new and innovative functionality.”
OpenSearch changes
OpenSearch users don’t need to do anything, as all the changes happen in the background, but the changes “help bring the spirit of collaboration from the open source world to the technology and from there to Amazon OpenSearch Service,” the company said. announcement said.
The new OpenSearch Foundation will have a board and a technical steering committee, in line with the Linux Foundation’s governance model.
Speaking with TechCrunchGeneral Manager for OpenSearch at AWS, Mukul Karnik, said that after the launch of OpenSearch and the project progressed, βit became more organic in some ways, where we were taking these organic steps to figure out how to get more people involved in the project.β
Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, also spoke about the announcement, saying that “The Linux Foundation is excited to provide a neutral home for open and collaborative development around open source search and analytics. Search is something we all rely on every day, for both business and consumer purposes, and we look forward to supporting the OpenSearch community and helping them deliver powerful search and analytics tools to organizations and individuals around the world.”
A number of other companies are joining the Foundation as premier members, including SAP and Uber, in addition to other general members including Aiven, Aryn, Atlassian, Canonical, DigitalOcean, Eliatra, Graylog, NetApp Instaclustr, and Portal26.