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Re:Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Compet... by busterarm on Thursday April 25, 2019 @04:39PM (#19752289)
Elastic Cloud is far and away the best SaaS ElasticSearch offering.

It's in every way a better product than the hosted AWS ElasticSearch service, which I find to be practically unusable. More importantly, I don't know anywhere that uses AWS ElasticSearch where ElasticSearch is a core component of someone's platform.

The problem Elastic has is that their Cloud isn't remotely as good as self-hosting. Using their Cloud doesn't abstract away the domain knowledge needed to operate ElasticSearch at scale, so anyone who uses it and becomes competent will eventually self-host.

If they can get better at abstracting away the arcane knowledge needed to operate ES, AWS won't be a problem for them.

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Re:Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Compet... by coredog64 on Friday April 26, 2019 @07:05AM (#19756246)
At my previous employer we used the AWS managed ES product for an ELK stack that was ingesting terabytes per day. It was painful, and we eventually moved off it, but it was still valuable for the training wheels it provided. If the developers had been better at logging it’s possible we would have been happy to continue on the managed product.
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Re:Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Compet... by jackbravo on Thursday April 25, 2019 @06:26PM (#19753069)
Like algolia
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Re:Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Compet... by busterarm on Thursday April 25, 2019 @07:15PM (#19753412)
From where I sit, Algolia solves a very small subset of problems that Lucene-based search engines do. Often problems people don't actually have.
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