I manage a team which runs elastic clusters for customers. > The effort alone [...] is massive unless you have a big team. I'd like to put a different spin on

I manage a team which runs elastic clusters for customers. > The effort alone [...] is massive unless you have a big team. I'd like to put a different spin on that statement: operating a large production cluster requires a lot of expertise and probably a certification, but is apart from getting that experience not particularly time intensive thanks to elastic's excellent tooling. > One of the Opensearch clusters I have with AWS Our experience with elastic PaaS hasn't been that stellar either. We manage our own cloud clusters.