The Difference Between Elasticsearch, Open Distro, and OpenSearch

David Tippett
AWS in Plain English
4 min readJun 16, 2021

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Source: Me

** Note: Open Distro is no longer releasing new versions. All development has moved to OpenSearch**
That’s right, Amazon is releasing an open-source fork of Elasticsearch/Kibana. This may be a bit confusing as they already been supporting Open Distro since February of 2019. We’ll take a side-by-side look at both to understand what is so different about OpenSearch.

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