- 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
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cloud computing