Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch 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, click stream analytics, and text search.
With Amazon Elasticsearch Service, you get direct access to the Elasticsearch open-source APIs so that existing code and applications will work seamlessly. You can set up and configure your Amazon Elasticsearch cluster in minutes from the AWS Management Console.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service provisions all the resources for your cluster and launches it. Amazon Elasticsearch Service automatically detects and replaces failed Amazon Elasticsearch nodes, reducing the overhead associated with self-managed infrastructures. You can deploy an Amazon Elasticsearch cluster in minutes using the AWS Management Console. There are no upfront costs to set up Amazon Elasticsearch clusters, and you pay only for the service resources that you use.
The service offers integrations with open-source tools like Kibana and Logstash for data ingestion and visualization. It also integrates seamlessly with other AWS services such as Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), AWS Key Management Service (KMS), Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, AWS Lambda, AWS Identity and Access Management Service (IAM), Amazon Cognito, and Amazon CloudWatch, so you can go from data to actionable insights quickly and securely.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service offers the following benefits of a managed service: