OpenSearch Is Now Generally Available!

OpenSearch has reached general availability with version 1.0, marking a significant milestone for this new open-source initiative, which emerged after Elastic's decision to change the licensing for Elasticsearch and Kibana. This release offers a pure Apache 2.0 open-source equivalent of the popular Elasticsearch and Kibana projects, enhanced with plugins from Open Distro for Elasticsearch, and introduces new features like data stream support for OpenSearch Dashboards, ARM64 support, and plugins for distributed tracing analytics. AWS played a crucial role in forking the project, and the release is designed for production deployments, available both as a standalone tool and for embedding into other products. Looking ahead, the roadmap includes several minor releases and a major version 2.0 release in early 2022, promising further advancements in cross-cluster replication, anomaly detection, and more.