Beta expected in a matter of weeks, production release planned for summer Tim Anderson Tue 13 Apr 2021 // 15:29 UTC Share Copy AWS has introduced the OpenSearch project, the new name for its open-source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana. OpenSearch is "the new home for our previous distribution of Elasticsearch (Open Distro for Elasticsearch)," according to a post yesterday, and the code is licensed under Apache 2.0. The Kibana fork is called OpenSearch Dashboards. The projects are on GitHub, where they are described as "in alpha state." The contributors said: "We've been removing non-Apache 2.0 compliant code and doing a full rename of the project."