Comment by judge2020

Well, now nobody can provide a competitor to ES cloud services for newer versions. If you upgrade to v7.11 or above, you're locking in your choice for 'managed hosting for ES/Kibana' to ES cloud services.

> Is this done by honest intentions from AWS or is it simply based on the fact that ES are making a lot of money of the cloud services?

Is wanting to make money considered honest intentions? ES released v7.10 under the Apache license on purpose, so they knew that any form of license change would mean people can still use earlier releases without having to adhere to the SSPL, and anyone could legally fork it or run it on non-ES hardware without having to pay the piper.