Open-source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana will be supported by the newly formed OpenSearch Software Foundation, whose members include AWS, Uber, Canonical, and Aiven. Credit: sirtravelalot Amazon Web Services is transferring its OpenSearch open-source project to the Linux Foundation, which has launched the OpenSearch Software Foundation to support the project and its search and analytics software. The announcement was made September 16. An open-source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana, OpenSearch now becomes part of the Linux Foundation family of open source projects. OpenSearch is used by developers around the world to build search, analytics, observability, and vector database applications, to the tune of more than 700 million downloads, the Linux Foundation said. The OpenSearch Software Foundation will work with community maintainers and developers and founding member organizations to support the continued growth of OpenSearch. Nandini Ramini, vice president of search and cloud operations at AWS, said that OpenSearch would benefit from vendor-neutral support. “By transferring OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation, we are setting the project and its community up for its next stage of growth,” Ramini said in a published statement. “With vendor-neutral governance that invites greater collaboration, along with programming and operational resources to further nurture the community, we look forward to working collaboratively with this new foundation to ensure everyone can continue to benefit from OpenSearch,” she said. The OpenSearch Software Foundation will focus on supporting OpenSearch as it continues to be adopted by organizations to power business-critical workloads, the Linux Foundation said. Support for the OpenSearch Software Foundation is being provided by premier members AWS and Uber and general members Aiven, Aryn, Canonical, Eliatra, Graylog, NetApp Instaclustr, and Portal26. The OpenSearch Project has been organized as an open technical project within the Linux Foundation, overseen by a technical steering committee. More information about OpenSearch is available at the project website and at the project repo on GitHub. Related content analysis Strategies to navigate the pitfalls of cloud costs Cloud providers waste a lot of their customers’ cloud dollars, but enterprises can take action. By David Linthicum Nov 15, 2024 6 mins Cloud Architecture Cloud Management Cloud Computing analysis Understanding Hyperlight, Microsoft’s minimal VM manager Microsoft is making its Rust-based, functions-focused VM tool available on Azure at last, ready to help event-driven applications at scale. By Simon Bisson Nov 14, 2024 8 mins Microsoft Azure Rust Serverless Computing how-to Docker tutorial: Get started with Docker volumes Learn the ins, outs, and limits of Docker's native technology for integrating containers with local file systems. By Serdar Yegulalp Nov 13, 2024 8 mins Devops Cloud Computing Software Development news Red Hat OpenShift AI unveils model registry, data drift detection Cloud-based AI and machine learning platform also adds support for Nvidia NIM, AMD GPUs, the vLLM runtime for KServe, KServe Modelcars, and LoRA fine-tuning. By Paul Krill Nov 12, 2024 3 mins Generative AI PaaS Artificial Intelligence Resources Videos