Elasticsearch Service Comparisons

What did Amazon do to Elasticsearch?

Elastic’s SaaS offering is incredibly expensive vs AWS Elasticsearch

What pain points do you see with Amazon ES, if I may ask? I'm considering migrating to it.

Elasticsearch is not "cloud storage". It has facilities to run well on EC2, yes, but you can easily setup your own, local instance quickly on any machine. Its just a fulltext indexed store like Solr or others.

Elastic Search make their money from Enterprise support licenses. There are so many ways of installing it , scaling and optimizing depending on application. Don't forget the training around. You have IBs like Goldman Sachs using it for log analytics. So the services around that are needed and real. I don't think they will need an enterprise version.

If your use case is faster search - ES cloud is way more efficient/performs better than AWS. They manage their cloud stack pretty well. I hate those `amazon.internal` stack trace in thread stack ( when you try to troubleshoot something in prod) as you have no access to code to see what it even does.

This is great intel - sorry it had to come with such painful experience.Does anyone know if Open Distro for ElasticSearch (https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/) has these problems? Or is it related to how AWS configures/maintains ES on their platform?

AWS is doing a terrible job with their es version. and es has aquired endgame and giving endgame away for 'free' with you purchase of es licensing, and the es stack run by es is getting a lot more attention and development that AWS version

This is a mistake many people make. Elasticsearch is probably overkill for your particular use case.It’s similar to bringing a F1 car to a go-cart race and then being surprised you aren’t able to finish the race because you don’t have a pit crew able to maintain your vehicle.I’ve built and owned large Elasticseach clusters at Fortune 50 companies for providing log search as well as document search. Like anything, administering an ES cluster requires planning, engineering, and process

Our startup uses managed elasticsearch through elastic. We're a very small team so support/consulting advice is important to us and they are good at that.