AWS Elasticsearch

• Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch clusters in the AWS Cloud.
• Elasticsearch is a popular open-source search and analytics engine for use cases such as log analytics, real-time application monitoring, and clickstream analytics
• Elasticsearch provides
  • real-time, distributed search and analytics engine
  • ability to provision all the resources for Elasticsearch cluster and launches the cluster
  • easy to use cluster scaling options
  • provides self-healing clusters, which automatically detects and replaces failed Elasticsearch nodes, reducing the overhead associated with self-managed infrastructures
  • domain snapshots to back up and restore ES domains and replicate domains across AZs
  • data durability
  • enhanced security with IAM access control
  • node monitoring
  • multiple configurations of CPU, memory, and storage capacity, known as instance types
  • storage volumes for the data using EBS volumes
  • Multiple geographical locations for your resources, known as regions and Availability Zones
  • ability to span cluster nodes across two AZs in the same region, known as zone awareness,  for high availability and redundancy
  • dedicated master nodes to improve cluster stability
  • data visualization using the Kibana tool
  • integration with CloudWatch for monitoring ES domain metrics
  • integration with CloudTrail for auditing configuration API calls to ES domains
  • integration with S3, Kinesis, and DynamoDB for loading streaming data
  • ability to handle structured and Unstructured data
  • HTTP Rest APIs