Amazon OpenSearch Service vs Elastic Security comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Elastic are both solutions in the Log Management category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #19 with an average rating of 7.3, while Elastic is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.5. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 2.2% mindshare in Log Management, compared to Elastic’s 2.9% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of Elastic users who would recommend it.

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86% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 16, 2025

Elastic Security and Amazon OpenSearch Service are leading competitors in the log management and analysis category. Elastic Security may have the upper hand due to its open-source features and cost-effectiveness, appealing to SMEs with budget constraints.

Features: Elastic Security boasts comprehensive open-source features including powerful indexing, machine learning capabilities, and seamless integration with the ELK Stack. Users highlight its scalability and speed, making it ideal for threat hunting. Amazon OpenSearch Service is recognized for its managed service advantage and performance in handling large-scale data searches, offering fast and efficient results, particularly beneficial for big enterprises.

Room for Improvement: Elastic Security faces challenges with its authentication and notification features, with users wanting better automation, documentation clarity, and more out-of-the-box use cases. Amazon OpenSearch Service requires enhancements in configuration flexibility and cost-effectiveness, with suggestions for improved user customization and pricing structures.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Elastic Security provides deployment flexibility across on-premises, private, and hybrid clouds, backed by strong community support. Its complexity can be daunting without specialized knowledge. Amazon OpenSearch Service simplifies deployment via public cloud managed services, though customization options might be limited. Both solutions rely on community support for customer service, with Elastic sometimes facing slower response times.

Pricing and ROI: Elastic Security offers a cost-effective open-source model, yielding high ROI with minimal basic costs, though premium features may be chargeable. Amazon OpenSearch Service, with higher-managed service pricing, suits users prioritizing reduced infrastructure management overhead, justifying costs with its managed nature.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon OpenSearch Service

Ranking in Log Management

19th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (23rd), Search as a Service (3rd)

Elastic Security

Ranking in Log Management

9th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (5th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (14th), Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (5th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Amazon OpenSearch Service is 2.2%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Elastic Security is 2.9%, down from 3.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Log Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Elastic Security	2.9%
Amazon OpenSearch Service	2.2%
Other	94.9%

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Md. Shahariar Hossen

Senior Software Engineer at Cefalo

Event tracking has become smoother and data analytics provide clear insights for user actions

Amazon OpenSearch Service is not providing the processing feature directly. From Amazon OpenSearch Service, we are actually maintaining the AWS SQS, the queue service, which is responsible for providing information about what data has to be modified. So using that SQS, we're actually providing it, but we're not directly using Amazon OpenSearch Service for keeping data to other data pipeline thing. So far we didn't use it for any machine learning purposes, but in future, we have plans to extend or implement this feature. Since AWS itself is secure and Amazon OpenSearch Service is a part of this entire ecosystem, it becomes much easier for security purposes. From the validation point of view, Amazon OpenSearch Service itself provides easy to communicate APIs and up-to-date documents, which is much beneficial. For example, if I'm missing anything, I can directly go and check the documentation. That is actually much easier. I would rate it as really good so far. It's much faster. For our local machine, we can also use a kind of replica of Amazon OpenSearch Service just for development purposes. That is another good feature. I would say for the encryption thing and also the user access control management, it's much faster. For some of these hashing algorithms, it also worked really well so far. To be honest, I didn't find any places where it can be improved. However, I think they could provide more abstraction. For example, still for searching, we have to write down the queries in a specific manner, such as for a specific JSON structure or in a specific way. Otherwise, they don't provide us the actual results. For at least this purpose, I think abstraction could be a bit easier or a bit improved. Other than that, right now there is the age of AI, so some kind of prompting could also work, but I'm not sure how it could be integrated. As a user, lower prices or reasonable pricing is always better. Those can be improved as well. However, it is good that most of the services including Amazon OpenSearch Service actually provide pay as you go pricing. So if there were a bit lower version or a bit less payment methodology, it might be much better.

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Laurentiu Popescu

Chief Product Officer at ClusterPower

Has improved threat detection with deep log analysis and streamlined investigation workflows

The most useful features I find in Elastic Security are the forensic ones that allow us to carry deeper analysis into the logs for in-depth investigations, and the dashboards, with the reporting dashboard being quite user-friendly. Elastic Security is quite good at identifying threats, as it is part of the deep investigation tool that I mentioned before. Unless we need to look further into a certain log, we can carry out a deeper analysis and forensics on those particular logs. I can assess the impact of Elastic Security's real-time data analysis on our threat response efficiency as working pretty good. We are looking for real-time analysis because we have a continuous inflow of logs from different sources: from our cloud, from Active Directory, from our network. So it works pretty well.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It's a good log management platform. In terms of infrastructure management, it's good."

"Amazon OpenSearch Service has enhanced our organization's ability to store and search large amounts of data efficiently."

"They have the good documentation in the help text and that is the reason the Amazon is the perfect solution in the current market."

"Amazon OpenSearch Service provides a managed database solution, so we don't need to manage everything ourselves."

"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."

"It enables us to efficiently search and retrieve our event data, offering us a versatile approach to locate specific information within these logs."

"The most valuable features of Amazon Elasticsearch are ease of use, native JSON, and efficiency. Additionally, handles many use cases and search grammar was useful."

"In case there is a failure, Elastic manages everything well, and there no major downtime."

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"ELK is open-source, and it will give you the framework you need to build everything from scratch."

"It is an extremely stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"It is very quick to react. I can set it to check anomalies or suspicious behavior every 30 seconds. It is very fast."

"I use the stack every morning to check the errors and it's just so clear. I don't see any disadvantage to using Logstash."

"The stability of the solution is good."

"Elastic has a lot of beats, such as Winlogbeat and Filebeat. Beats are the agents that have to be installed on the terminals to send the data. When we install beats or Elastic agents on every terminal, they don't overload the terminals. In other SIEM solutions such as Splunk or QRadar, when beats or agents are installed on endpoints, they are very heavy for the terminals. They consume a lot of power of the terminals, whereas Elastic agents hardly consume any power and don't overload the terminals."

"The most valuable features of the solution are the prevention methods and the incident alerts."

"Elastic Security is a highly flexible platform that can be implemented anywhere."

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Cons

"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."

"In terms of data handling capabilities with Amazon OpenSearch Service, they can be complex and managing data in comparison to other SIM solutions is a major drawback, as it is very hard to handle the data."

"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."

"Amazon Elasticsearch can improve the bullion in the near search and the ease of integration with Kibana. Additionally, there could be more flexibility in the configuration and documentation."

"We faced documentation challenges during integration after migrating from Elasticsearch to Amazon OpenSearch Service. Better documentation on integration, query handling, and a more user-friendly UI could enhance the product."

"The price is fair yet leans towards the expensive side. I'd rate it five out of ten with respect to capabilities vs. cost."

"The pricing aspect is a concern. The service is way too costly. For the past month, I used only 30 to 40 MB of data, and the cost was $500. AWS could improve pricing."

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"We are paying dearly for the guy who is working on the ELK Stack. That knowledge is quite rare and hard to come by. For difficulty and availability of resources, I would rate it a five out of 10."

"Better integration with third-party APMs would be really good."

"The price of this product could be improved, especially the additional costs. I would also like to see better-quality graphics."

"The solution could also use better dashboards. They need to be more graphical, more matrix-like."

"The solution needs to be more reactive to investigations. We need to be able to detect and prevent any attacks before it can damage our infrastructure. Currently, this solution doesn't offer that."

"Its documentation should be a bit better. I have to spend at least a couple of hours to find the solution for a simple thing. When we buy Elastic, training is not included for free with Elastic. We have to pay extra for the training. They should include training in the price."

"There isn't really a very good user experience. You need a lot of training."

"This type of monitoring is not very mature just yet. We need more real-time information in a way that's easier to manage."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Compared to other cloud platforms, it is manageable and not very expensive."

"You only pay for what you use."

"There is a community edition available and the price of the commercial offering is reasonable."

"The solution is not expensive, but priced averagely, I will say."

"Compared to other tools, Elastic Security is a cheaper solution."

"It is easy to deploy, easy to use, and you get everything you need to become operational with it, and have nothing further to pay unless you want the OLED plugin."

"The solution is free."

"I find it better than Splunk in terms of cost-effectiveness. For cost-effectiveness, I would rate it a nine out of 10."

"The product offers an amazing pricing structure. Price-wise, the product is very competitive."

"The licensing cost of Elastic Security is based on the daily ingestion rate. I can't recall the exact figure, but for 10GB of log action daily, it would cost around $20,000."

"Its price is fine. Its licensing works on a yearly basis. We have to renew the license every year. I also have a good experience with Darktrace. When we buy Darktrace, we get training free of cost, which is not there in Elastic. We have to pay extra for training. There is certainly room for improvement."

"When compared to other products, the price is average or on the low side."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	3

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	40
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	15

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon OpenSearch Service?

We retrieve historical data with just a click of a button to move it from cold to hot or warm because it's already stored in the backend storage

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon OpenSearch Service?

I would consider the pricing as a six based on how much data we are handling; if we handle minimal data, it's cheap, but for large data, it becomes costly. Our clients usually pay between $1,000 to...

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What needs improvement with Amazon OpenSearch Service?

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Datadog vs ELK: which one is good in terms of performance, cost and efficiency?

With Datadog, we have near-live visibility across our entire platform. We have seen APM metrics impacted several times lately using the dashboards we have created with Datadog; they are very good c...

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What do you like most about Elastic Security?

Elastic provides the capability to index quickly due to the reverse indexes it offers. This data is crucial as it contains critical information. The reverse index allows fast data indexing because ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Elastic Security?

I am satisfied with the pricing, setup cost, and licensing cost. It is a pure 10.

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Also Known As

Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Elastic SIEM, ELK Logstash

Overview

Amazon OpenSearch Service provides scalable and reliable search capabilities with efficient data processing, supporting easy domain configuration and integration with numerous systems for enhanced performance.

Amazon OpenSearch Service offers advanced features for handling JSON, diverse search grammars, quick historical data retrieval, and ultra-warm storage. It also includes customizable dashboards and seamless tool integration for large enterprises. With its managed infrastructure, OpenSearch Service supports efficient system analysis and business analytics, improving overall performance and flexibility. Despite these features, areas like configuration complexity, lack of auto-scaling, and integration with Kibana require attention. Users seek enhanced documentation, better pricing options, and more flexible data handling. Desired improvements include default filters, mapping configuration, and alerting capabilities. Enhanced data visualization and Compute Optimizer Service integration are also recommended for future updates.

What features define Amazon OpenSearch Service?

Scalable Search: Offers reliable search capabilities across vast datasets.
JSON Handling: Supports efficient management of JSON data.
Ultra-warm Storage: Enables cost-effective historical data retrieval.
Dashboard Customization: Supports tool integration and tailored visuals.
System Upgrades: Allows for seamless infrastructure upgrades.

What benefits and ROI should users consider?

Performance Enhancement: Significant improvement in search and data retrieval.
Cost-Effectiveness: Provides a cloud-native solution optimized for AWS environments.
Comprehensive Analytics: Delivers detailed insights for business applications.

Amazon OpenSearch Service is utilized in various industries for log management, data storage, and search capabilities. It supports infrastructure and embedded management, analyzing logs from AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, and other services. Companies use it for application debugging, monitoring security and performance, and customer behavior analysis, integrating it with tools like DynamoDB and Snowflake for a cost-effective solution.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Elastic Security is a robust, open-source security solution designed to offer integrated threat prevention, detection, and response capabilities across an organization's entire digital estate. Part of the Elastic Stack (which includes Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana), Elastic Security leverages the power of search, analytics, and data aggregation to provide real-time insight into threats and vulnerabilities. It is a comprehensive platform that supports a wide range of security needs, from endpoint protection to cloud and network security, making it a versatile choice for organizations looking to enhance their cybersecurity posture.

Elastic Security combines the features of a security information and event management (SIEM) system with endpoint protection, allowing organizations to detect, investigate, and respond to threats in real time. This unified approach helps reduce complexity and improve the efficiency of security operations.

Additional offerings and benefits:

The platform utilizes advanced analytics, machine learning algorithms, and anomaly detection to identify threats and suspicious activities.
It offers extensive integration options with other tools and platforms, facilitating a more cohesive and comprehensive security ecosystem.
With Kibana, users gain access to powerful visualization tools and dashboards that provide real-time insight into security data.

Finally, Elastic Security benefits from a global community of users who contribute to its threat intelligence, helping to enhance its detection capabilities. This collaborative approach ensures that the solution remains on the cutting edge of cybersecurity, with up-to-date information on the latest threats and vulnerabilities.

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Sample Customers

VIDCOIN, Wyng, Yellow New Zealand, zipMoney, Cimri, Siemens, Unbabel

Texas A&M, U.S. Air Force, NuScale Power, Martin's Point Health Care

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