speed is good as we are processing in excess of 100 TB of data in real time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

cost is a problem as the data increases, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Elasticsearch itself is an open source scalable, distributed, real-time search and analytics engine from Elastic, the creators of Logstash, Beats, and Kibana. Elasticsearch makes an excellent alternative to Splunk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon Elastic search is hardly overwhelming, coming with a very basic tool kit and an outdated release version. And it’s expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service provides a step-by-step guide and process to setting up your own Elasticsearch infrastructure, so for those who are as familiar with DevOps experience (like me), it allows end users to navigate and set up a service quickly and easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's not much you CAN do if you do want the bells and whistles of a fully featured and operational Elasticsearch. It has no access to logs (BIG drawback, especially when it comes to debugging and measuring times for certain queries I am using in my application) and, furthermore, zero monitoring for cluster metrics, which is important for measuring how much usage we're getting out of it from a business standpoint. In the end, we had to go with a custom installation of Elastic Search because what this service offers is not even close to what we expect and need from a search and analytics engine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Provides more security and durability by providing data replication. Self healing clusters is a win. The best part was integration with amazon could watch where I could set up alarms for my instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

API's are read only.

No access to logs.

No access to node level metrics.

No frequent hourly backup schedule available.

Customer support is worse. Every time they try to focus the attention on shards instead of trying to troubleshoot the issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Elastic search allows easy implementation of complex search features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation available on how to use elastic search Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fast, scalable, pretty affordable, and integrates nicely if you use other AWS products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A bit of a learning curve if you're new to AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Self managed, redundancy, support, transplarent viewing of cluster size and pricing. Qucik sizing up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No X-Pack support, no way to use advanced features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Log searching capabilities and dashboards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It’s amazing to meet our requirements at this point Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's convenient, easy to set up and operationally ok Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It could be better in some areas but not others Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the good documentation provided, helps a lot when starting as a beginner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are no clear cons so far, as set up was easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.