Amazon Moved a Knight. Google Pushes a Pawn

April 10, 2019

If you care about search and retrieval, you may be interested in the chess game underway between Amazon and Google. Amazon seized the initiative by embracing the open source Elasticsearch. Google, an outfit whose failures in search are known to anyone who licensed a Google Search Appliance, has responded. The pawn Google nudged forward is Elastic, the outfit which has been a big dog in search and retrieval for several years.

According to “Elastic and Google Cloud Expand Elasticsearch Service Partnership”:

Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) and Google Cloud (GCP) announced the expansion of their managed Elasticsearch Service partnership to make it faster and easier for users to deploy Elasticsearch within their Google Cloud Platform (GCP) accounts. Building upon the partnership to deliver Elastic’s Elasticsearch Service on GCP, the companies announced a fully managed, cloud-native integration for discovery, billing, and support for Elasticsearch Service within the GCP Console.

We also circled this statement, which is quite fascinating when interpreted in the context of Amazon’s open source tactic:

Elastic’s Elasticsearch Service on GCP gives users a turnkey experience to deploy powerful Elastic Stack features of Elasticsearch and Kibana, including proprietary free and paid features such as security, alerting, machine learning, Kibana spaces, Canvas, Elasticsearch SQL, and cross-cluster search. In addition, users can deploy new curated solutions for logging, infrastructure monitoring, mapping and geospatial analysis, and APM; optimize compute, memory, and storage workloads using Elastic’s customizable deployment templates such as hot-warm architecture for the logging use case; and upgrade to the latest version of Elasticsearch and Kibana as soon as it is released with a single click.

The chess timer is Amazon’s. Will the company make a lucid move?

Stephen E Arnold, April 10, 2019

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Amazon, Enterprise search, Google, News

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One Response to “Amazon Moved a Knight. Google Pushes a Pawn”

Charlie Hull on April 10th, 2019 9:22 am

We seem to have both written about this today! https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2019/04/10/weather-forecast-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-elasticsearch/

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