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 news Oracle CloudWorld 2024: 10 key takeaways from the big annual event The cloud services provider’s announcements this year focused on providing developers and enterprises with new ways to take advantage of generative AI in their operations. By Anirban Ghoshal Sep 18, 2024 8 mins Oracle Database Developer Development Tools feature How Cloud Custodian conquered cloud resource management Acquiring cloud infrastructure is easy, but controlling cost and usage is hard. Here’s how open-source project Cloud Custodian flipped the script with policy as code. By Travis Van Sep 18, 2024 8 mins Cloud Management Devops Cloud Computing opinion When your cloud strategy is ‘it depends’ Enterprise IT moves slowly, and people may not embrace change. What does it take to encourage your company to move into the future? By Matt Asay Sep 16, 2024 5 mins Technology Industry Cloud Computing Emerging Technology feature Oracle CloudWorld 2024: Conference news and insights Oracle CloudWorld 2024 saw Oracle focusing its energies on providing IT infrastructure that can help developers and enterprises take advantage of generative AI in their operations. Here is our complete coverage. By Anirban Ghoshal Sep 16, 2024 7 mins Cloud Computing Resources Videos