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Shay Banon

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Elastic N.V.

Search every verified Shay Banon interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Shay Banon, founder and CTO of Elastic, has been active in public discussions about open source, cloud security, and Elastic's product direction. In an April 2025 Server Side Chat with Prowler founder Toni de la Fuente, Banon discussed the evolution of open source in cybersecurity, the complexity of securing multi-cloud environments, and the role of transparency and collaboration in security tooling. He noted that open source has become a proven approach for security products and reflected on Elastic's history with AWS, saying the company took Elastic's brand as well as its software, which contributed to Elastic's eventual license changes. In a February 2025 Ask Me Anything session with the ElasticFR community, Banon addressed topics including serverless on-premise deployment, the ES|QL query language, logsdb licensing, and Elastic 9's release, stating that Elastic's strategy is to maintain parity between self-managed and cloud offerings to serve customers that cannot run on the cloud. Banon has also spoken about Elastic's return to open source licensing after a period under the Elastic License v2 and SSPL. In a December 2024 interview on The Changelog podcast, he described the relicensing as painful and said he believed in the social contract of open source, which led Elastic to stop calling itself open source during that period. He said usage continued to grow despite the change, but that some community members were upset and the company lost some users who could only use open source software. He also discussed Elastic's work on vector databases and generative AI, describing Elasticsearch as a de facto standard for search and vector databases. In earlier appearances, he has emphasized Elastic's community-driven approach, its distributed company model, and its pricing strategy of not charging per endpoint or application.

Recent appearances

  • Server Side Chat: Open Source & Cloud Security | Shay Banon (Elastic) & Toni de la Fuente (Prowler)

    April 10, 2025 · 📺 Prowler — open source agentic cloud security

    What does the future of cloud security look like—and how does open source fit in? In this candid and insightful Server Side Chat, Shay Banon, founder of Elastic, and Toni de la Fuente, founder of Prowler, sit down to talk about the real state of open cloud security. Topics include: 🔓 The evolution of open source in cybersecurity ☁️ The growing complexity of securing multi-cloud environments 🧰 Why transparency, collaboration, and tooling matter more than ever 📈 Predictions for where cloud and DevSecOps are headed next This session is a must-watch for: Cloud security practitioners Open sour…

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  • Ask Me Anything! avec Shay Banon | Meetup ElasticFR #94

    February 03, 2025 · 📺 Official Elastic Community

    Ask Me Anything! par Shay Banon, CTO, Elastic During the event, Shay answered the following questions: 00:00 Intro 00:11 Celebrating the 12 years of David at Elastic 02:01 Serverless on premise 14:37 A resource manager for ES|QL 20:14 logsdb and the enterprise license level 29:18 Quantization and vectors precision 50:30 Elastic 9 release date

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  • Elastic CTO on the fallout from their license change away from open source

    December 05, 2024 · 📺 Changelog

    Shay Banon, CTO of ‪@Elastic‬, discusses the knock-on effects of relicensing Elasticsearch away from open source (it is now open source again, btw). A clip from "The Changelog" podcast. Full audio 👉 https://changelog.fm/614 Subscribe for more! 👇 Apple: https://changelog.fm/apple Spotify: https://changelog.fm/spotify Android: https://changelog.fm/android Overcast: https://changelog.fm/overcast Email: https://changelog.fm/email Twitter:   / changelog   Mastodon: https://changelog.social/@changelog #podcast #software #opensource #programming #softwareengineering #coding #oss #foss #developme…

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  • Serverless Architecture in Elasticsearch

    December 22, 2023 · 📺 Official Elastic Community

    Bangalore meetup, November 2023 | Serverless Architecture in Elasticsearch. Speaker: Shay Banon (CTO @Elastic)

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  • ElasticON EMEA: Customer Fireside Chat with Shay Banon, SWIFT, and Booking.com

    June 08, 2023 · 📺 Elastic

    Customer Fireside Chat - Featuring Shay Banon with Booking.com & SWIFT. Sign up & Subscribe: Start the 14-day trial for free! No credit card required: https://cloud.elastic.co/registration Subscribe to Elastic’s Community YT channel:    / officialelasticcommunity   #ElasticEnterpriseSearch #ElasticObservability #ElasticSecurity

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  • AMA with Shay Banon - Elastic Founder & CTO

    May 04, 2023 · 📺 Official Elastic Community

    Watch this great AMA (Ask me Anything) session where Shay Banon - Elastic Founder & CTO, answers questions submitted by community members. A virtual event dedicated to the Top Elastic Contributors 2023 cycle. Hosted by Ully Sampaio, Elastic Contributors Program Manager To learn more about the program, check out our webpage: https://www.elastic.co/community/cont... Connect with the Elastic Community: https://www.elastic.co/community/ Visit our website: https://www.elastic.co/

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  • ElasticON Public Sector: Illuminate the Possibilities with Shay Banon

    March 01, 2023 · 📺 Elastic

    Shay Banon, Founder and CTO of Elastic, opens up the ElasticON Public Sector Keynote with a thank you to our customers, a brief history of Elastic, and a look ahead at product innovations for government organizations including cybersecurity, geospatial, and more. Additional Resources: Learn more about Elastic for Public Sector: https://www.elastic.co/industries/pub... Check out the Results That Matter for Public Sector: https://www.elastic.co/elastic-result... #ElasticON #Elasticsearch #ElasticEnterpriseSearch #ElasticObservability #ElasticSecurity

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  • ElasticCC: Keynote: The Past — 10 Years Elastic

    February 24, 2022 · 📺 Official Elastic Community

    By Shay Banon, Simon Willnauer and Uri Boness Q&A with the Elasticsearch founders — back when the company wasn't even called Elastic yet. Some of the questions we are asking them are: What was your goal in founding Elasticsearch? What is the reason for Elastic’s success? Is there anything you would have done differently at Elastic? Is there any product specific feature you’re particularly proud of? Is there a feature of the Elastic Stack that you think is underrated?

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  • ElasticCC: Keynote: The Future — What's Next?

    February 24, 2022 · 📺 Official Elastic Community

    By Ashutosh Kulkarni, Shay Banon, Mandy Andress, Philipp Krenn, Nicolas Ruflin, Tony Meehan A chat between Ash and Shay about where Elastic is headed and what are the most important topics for the future. Followed by three technical deep-dives into common community questions: Security on by default in 8.0 — why it is so important and what it took to make it a reality, presented by Mandy and Philipp. From Logstash over Beats to Elastic Agent, where is the ingestion story headed in the Elastic Stack, discussed by Nicolas. And finally, where are the security products headed with some recent ac…

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  • KEYNOTE | TRANSFORMING TECH ONE DEV AT A TIME & OPEN MIC AMA // SHAY BANON

    December 16, 2021 · 📺 DevOpsDays Tel Aviv

    The bottom up approach that changed the way we think about the development processes, has the potential to encompass and ultimately transform many more aspects of engineering - from development to operations and many of its subsets, such as observability, delivery and security. This transformation will dictate the future of shipping products fast and reliably. Open source software alongside self-service cloud infrastructure, have enabled engineers to openly collaborate around software; this was the key to making the DevOps culture and the bottom up transformation possible. Shay Banon, Founde…

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  • From Developer to Founder to CEO: Engineering to Enterprise with Elastic

    May 27, 2021 · 📺 SaaStr AI

    Hear from Elastic founder and CEO, Shay Banon, about his founder story and key takeaways he learned when growing Elastic from an open source platform moderated from his living room, to an $11B global enterprise. Moderated by Elastic board member and General Partner at Coatue Management, Caryn Marooney, attendees will get an inside look at how Shay grew a company out of a recipe app he created for his wife, to a global enterprise, and the key learnings he discovered along the way. Want to join the SaaStr community? We're the 🌎largest community for B2B software. Subscribe for weekly updates…

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  • ElasticCC: Opening Keynote

    March 02, 2021 · 📺 Official Elastic Community

    With Shay Banon, Casey Zumwalt, Alex Fedotyev and James Spiteri.

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