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I recently ran a project to compare AWS Elasticsearch and Elastic-hosted ES. Surprisingly, we found that AWS did better for our use-case. Better IaC - easy to
by mrsuprawsm 6y ago
I recently ran a project to compare AWS Elasticsearch and Elastic-hosted ES.
Surprisingly, we found that AWS did better for our use-case. Better IaC - easy to set up clusters with Terraform, and associated alerts. Better monitoring and easier setup. Better price/performance. AWS is obviously lower friction from a purchasing point too once you're already an AWS user.
This makes me curious if Elastic are shooting themselves in the foot a bit here.
- mintplant 6y agoWhy would they be shooting themselves in the foot? From their perspective, Elastic doesn't get anything out of your going with the AWS offering, and Amazon's behemoth-level resources allow it to outcompete Elastic's own hosted offering, as you found, while contributing nothing back to cover development costs of the software itself.
- donretag 6y agoI have been using Elasticsearch for over ten years and have seen a few of the hosted versions. For many years, AWS was running way behind. A few major versions behind, almost no options. No one used it. The ES version was not great, but it was way better than the AWS version. Fast forward to 2021 and the AWS version is as seamless as most of their offerings. Works with the VPC, backing stores. You can set it up with CloudFormation/CDK. ES has stagnated.