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0 pointsmooreds7y ago0 comments

I can't speak for others, but I was looking to set up a quick elastic search cluster and Elastic's hosted offering beat the pants off of AWS ElasticSearch in terms of usability, polish, ease of getting started and security-by-default.

Now, I don't have a lot of data in the cluster, so we'll see how performance is when that happens, but would definitely recommend Elastic's offering.

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FridgeSeal7y ago

We recently moved our stuff at work from AWS to Elastic Cloud and it’s excellent.

Performance is miles and above better, there’s actual security options on the clusters and there’s way more features.

busterarm7y ago

Huh?

Elastic Cloud runs in either AWS or GCP. You get to choose but it's just between those. Unless you mean you were using AWS's ElasticSearch service... which is known to not be all that great.

You could build ES clusters on AWS directly on EC2 and it would be cheaper than Cloud, unless what you're really looking for is that support contract.

I spent a few months of my life learning ES inside and out and would choose this option every time. One of the best tech investments I've ever made.

mooredsOP7y ago

> You could build ES clusters on AWS directly on EC2 and it would be cheaper than Cloud, unless what you're really looking for is that support contract.

Or you are willing to trade money for dev time. Setting up and running the ES cluster on EC2 will take time and energy (source, I did it ). Whereas setting up the ES cluster on either the Elastic Search hosted service or AWS ElasticSearch is really just clicking some buttons.

However, I'm sure the right solution also depends on the amount of data you are using and the problem you are trying to solve.

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Rapzid7y ago

An issue I had with AWS was that even after they launched VPC ES clusters, they still hid the node IPs in the API output(I guess they patched ES?!). Our use case as a data lake meant that we had severely degraded performance with the hadoop/spark drivers than one would expect form it.

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