Elasticsearch's cloud offering is a hot mess, didn't have a lot of confidence in how it was provisioned. We did a bake-off between ES Cloud, AWS Opensearch, and

Elasticsearch's cloud offering is a hot mess, didn't have a lot of confidence in how it was provisioned. We did a bake-off between ES Cloud, AWS Opensearch, and hosting our own cluster on AWS and the winner was... hosting our own (all things being equal we'd much rather go PaaS.) AWS Opensearch would have won out had it supported plugins which I understand they are working on.