Amazon Web Services ships own open-source flavor of Elasticsearch, insists it's not trying to fork developers off

This is not a split, says rent-a-server biz
In an effort to keep code for the Elasticsearch project untainted by proprietary bits, Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday released a downstream distribution called Open Distro for Elasticsearch that the company promises is '100 per cent open source' under the Apache 2.0 license.…