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Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) has announced the listing of its Elastic Search AI Platform in the AWS Marketplace for the U.S. Intelligence Community (ICMP). This move makes Elastic's powerful search, AI, and analytics engine available to US Government customers through a curated digital catalog from Amazon Web Services.

The platform offers solutions for proactive system monitoring, AI-driven SecOps modernization, and generative AI search experiences. It is designed to handle massive amounts of unstructured and structured data, providing real-time actionable results at scale. Chris Townsend, VP of public sector at Elastic, emphasized that this listing gives federal agencies an additional avenue to access the full power of search and AI, enabling them to turn data into actionable insights.

Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) has signed a distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics to deliver its Search AI powered Security, Observability, and Search solutions to the U.S. and Canada channel. This strategic partnership aims to simplify the process for channel partners to work with Elastic through ArrowSphere, reducing time and effort for quoting, purchasing, and fulfilling.

The collaboration reinforces Elastic's commitment to helping organizations accelerate migration from legacy vendors. Arrow's extensive network of security partners and solutions lab can assist customers in modernizing their security operations with Elastic's AI-driven security analytics. Elastic recently launched its Express Migration program to provide a quick path for organizations to adopt its AI-driven security analytics solution efficiently.

Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) has announced that its Elasticsearch Open Inference API now supports Hugging Face models with native chunking through the integration of the semantic_text field. This advancement allows developers to rapidly deploy generative AI applications without the need to write custom chunking logic. The integration leverages Hugging Face Inference Endpoints, combining Hugging Face's embeddings with Elastic's retrieval relevance tools to enhance insights and search functionality.

Jeff Boudier, head of product at Hugging Face, highlighted that this integration provides developers with a complete solution to utilize open models for semantic search, hosted on Hugging Face's multi-cloud GPU infrastructure. Matt Riley, global VP & GM of search at Elastic, emphasized that this extension of GenAI and search primitives to Hugging Face developers strengthens their collaboration and simplifies the process of chunking and storing embeddings.

Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, has joined the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) to combat digital misinformation and promote transparency in AI-generated content. The CAI, founded by Adobe in 2019, now includes over 2,000 media and technology companies. Elastic's participation will leverage its expertise in search and large-scale data analysis to address the growing challenge of misinformation.

Carolyn Herzog, Elastic's chief legal officer, emphasized the importance of content authenticity in today's digital landscape, stating that their involvement will help build a more trustworthy online ecosystem. By joining the CAI, Elastic aims to provide users with tools to distinguish between fact and fiction in the digital realm.

Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) has introduced Automatic Import, a new feature that accelerates the migration of custom data sources from legacy logs solutions to AI-driven log analytics. This innovation automates the migration process in less than ten minutes, addressing the challenges faced by SRE teams managing the explosion of applications and telemetry data.

The feature utilizes Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate the creation of custom connectors, significantly reducing the time required for data collection and issue analysis. Additionally, Elastic has launched the Express Migration program, an incentive initiative designed to facilitate faster adoption of Elastic Observability for logging and application performance monitoring (APM) use cases.

Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) reported its Q1 fiscal 2025 financial results, showing strong growth but facing challenges. Total revenue reached $347 million, up 18% year-over-year, while Elastic Cloud revenue grew 30% to $157 million. Despite outperforming guidance, the company experienced a slower start due to segmentation changes impacting customer commitments. GAAP operating loss was $34 million, with a non-GAAP operating income of $37 million. The company maintains a strong financial position with $1.147 billion in cash and equivalents. Elastic is seeing momentum in GenAI adoption but has adjusted its fiscal 2025 outlook, projecting total revenue between $1.436 billion and $1.444 billion, representing 14% year-over-year growth at the midpoint.

Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) has announced the addition of the GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL) as a licensing option for a subset of Elasticsearch and Kibana source code. This OSI-approved open source license will be available alongside the existing Server Side Public License 1.0 (SSPL 1.0) and Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2). The move aims to officially classify Elasticsearch and Kibana as open source, enabling users to use, modify, redistribute, and collaborate on Elastic's source code under a well-known open source license.

This change is expected to increase engagement and adoption, particularly in areas like vector search and GenAI applications. Importantly, the addition of AGPL does not affect existing users of SSPL or ELv2, nor does it impact Elastic's binary distributions or client libraries, which will continue to be licensed under Apache 2.0.

Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, has announced its management's participation in three upcoming investor conferences in September 2024:

• Citi Global TMT Conference on September 4 at 9:30 a.m. PT / 12:30 p.m. ET
• Goldman Sachs Communacopia & Technology Conference on September 9 at 3:05 p.m. PT / 6:05 p.m. ET
• Piper Sandler Growth Frontiers Conference on September 11 at 7:30 a.m. PT / 10:30 a.m. ET

Live webcasts and replays of these events will be available on Elastic's Investor Relations page at ir.elastic.co. This announcement highlights Elastic's commitment to engaging with investors and sharing insights about the company's performance and future prospects.

Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) has announced that its Elasticsearch Open Inference API now integrates with Anthropic's Claude models, including Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3 Haiku, and Claude 3 Opus. This integration allows developers to access Claude models directly from their Anthropic account, enabling real-time analysis of proprietary data and generation of business insights.

The collaboration aims to help customers build efficient and reliable AI applications. Key features include support for inference during ingestion pipelines and the ability to generate and store answers to frequently asked questions, which can help minimize latency and costs. The integration is available immediately, offering developers a powerful tool for AI-driven search and analytics.