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what do you mean? they have customers using it in prod
by finikytou 6y ago
what do you mean? they have customers using it in prod
- ComputerGuru 6y agoSo did MongoDB from day minus one.
- finikytou 6y agoWell mongodb is a much better product than it was a few years ago. not saying its a good one but... and aws elastic is just a fork of a stable elastic release. it makes sense if the cost is competitive
- dijit 6y agoThere are... quite a number of reasons you should give pause to the idea of running AWS hosted elastic. If you’re really up against the wall and don’t want to manage elasticsearch I would highly recommend getting the managed services from Elastic themselves. Support is decent and they’re cost competitive.
- biohax2015 6y ago> There are... quite a number of reasons you should give pause to the idea of running AWS hosted elastic. Care to share some of these reasons?
- sullivanmatt 6y agoI can't go into details, but let me say that someone who would be in the know at AWS, very much off the record, told us not to use their hosted elastic because of how terrible it is. Some issues: scaling it is manual (a "managed service" that requires direct management to scale is not a managed service lol), the elastic versions supported are usually woefully out of date, limited customer adoption means that the product doesn't get a lot of engineering attention and is just limping along, etc.
- qz2 6y agoThat’s what we were told as well. Plus also various things like cross region replication being unavailable. Also things like management ports are not possible to get to. Edit: also plan to lose everything in it.
- finikytou 6y agoI totally agree but if your requirement is just to have elastic for a standard search use case and don't need any new features it might make sense... out of date doesnt mean its garbage. I am not against manual scaling anyway at some level you always need to do manual scaling on AWS whatever the product...
- qz2 6y agoTheir sales team are awful. They don’t even understand the product they are selling.
- marcinzm 6y agoAWS could release a literal turd and someone somewhere would use it in production. Which doesn't mean you should too.