Opinions on the price being high seem to miss the point of AWS. AWS is very expensive relative to other clouds, with exceptions so some very nice services (S3,

Opinions on the price being high seem to miss the point of AWS. AWS is very expensive relative to other clouds, with exceptions so some very nice services (S3, SQS, SES, Route53). "Core" (Very Important™) services such as EC2/RDS are (appropriately) expensive due to the tooling and high availability options available. I'd expect the tradeoff for their hosted ES to be price, since I'm buying availability and less headache, not just the search service. I know for sure that I don't know enough to monitor JVM applications. I'd love to pay for their ES service if/when it made sense for a business.