Elastic is tackling Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) with its new license change. When Elastic, makers of the open-source search and analytic engine Elasticsearch and its companion data visualization dashboard Kibana, announced it was moving both programs’ source code from the Apache 2.0-license to the Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the Elastic License, you might have thought, “Who cares?” Oh, but if you use the Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) stack on the cloud, like Netflix, LinkedIn, Walmart, and thousands of other major companies do, you may end up caring a lot.

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