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.