Amazon Elasticsearch Service Reviews

Name: Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4.1 (6 reviews)

Vendor: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.1 out of 5

6 reviews
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What is Amazon Elasticsearch Service?

Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch clusters in the AWS Cloud.

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Amazon Elasticsearch Service is the #3 ranked solution in top Search as a Service vendors. PeerSpot users give Amazon Elasticsearch Service an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. Amazon Elasticsearch Service is most commonly compared to Elastic Search: Amazon Elasticsearch Service vs Elastic Search. Amazon Elasticsearch Service is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 69% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 19% of all views.

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Beverly R. Jamison

IT Solutions Architect / Computer Scientist at Practical Semantics

Amazon Elasticsearch is a search engine. We set up the index from where the content was and moved the content in to get it indexed. We provided the end user with a fairly full-featured search, and they were included in being able to write their own bullion The most valuable features of Amazon…

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Surjit Choudhury

Consultancy at Ebenezer International School

Not for all the projects I saw, but most of the projects were using Elasticsearch, which is very common. In my case, I have faced two scenarios with the solution. Other than that, generic solutions like SNS, SQS, and Lambda are some of the very generic tools we are using. Regarding what I would like to see improved in the solution, I would say that, basically, the configuration part is an area with a shortcoming. We have a DevOps person, so all these things are configured in the Terraform through the Terraform script we use. The DevOps team used to take care of it. To run the process or run the services and how to use the services are the parts for which we are using the solution. Some upgradation is required on the configuration side so that we can get to use it. In that case, I have to check on that area with the DevOps.

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Amruth Kumar

Team lead at YAP

I did experience a few lags. So we had to reset the servers and all other stuff because sometimes Elasticsearch is not responding properly. So, during that time, we just restarted the services. Probably, some kinds of metrics do not match the current requirements. That could be the reason. I would rate the stability an eight out of ten.

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Amazon Elasticsearch Service mindshare

As of December 2024, the mindshare of Amazon Elasticsearch Service in the Search as a Service category stands at 12.3%, down from 19.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"It enables us to efficiently search and retrieve our event data, offering us a versatile approach to locate specific information within these logs."
"It's a good log management platform. In terms of infrastructure management, it's good."
"Regarding valuable features of the solution, we found with the process, which we have used in both cases where we used the solution that while you're seeing the streaming of data, you can analyze in the initial phase what sort of data you are streaming and whether it is valuable."

Room for Improvement

"One glaring issue was with our mapping configuration as the system accepted the data we posted, but after a few months, when we attempted complex queries, we realized the date formatting had become problematic."
"I want to see a new feature in Amazon Elasticsearch Service that allows users to create default filters for filtered levels."
"I would say that, basically, the configuration part is an area with a shortcoming...Some upgradation is required on the configuration side so that we can get to use it."

Pricing

"The solution is not expensive, but priced averagely, I will say."
"There is a community edition available and the price of the commercial offering is reasonable."
"Compared to other cloud platforms, it is manageable and not very expensive."

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