We used to use the ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack hosted locally. So when we outgrew that, we just tried to find a bigger ELK provider. We did eva

We used to use the ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack hosted locally. So when we outgrew that, we just tried to find a bigger ELK provider. We did evaluate the elastic.co Cloud - which I concur would have been cheaper than Amazon - but since their demonstration cluster failed to boot correctly and as a result suffered a data loss during their sales presentation, my boss didn't feel comfortable going with them. That's how I was left with the decision to either scale up our old ELK stack on AWS or go with something proprietary.