>Elastic on Amazon is a great gateway drug to Elasticco's offerings.
Why is that? Is amazon not able to run it properly?
Can’t speak for the poster who wrote the parent post, but we’ve just evicted the AWS Elasticsearch stack from our platform. For something simple, it was a resource hog, configured badly out of the box, complex in all the wrong places, and limited in its offering and linkages to other AWS resources. Just my 2 cents of course.
Elastic, on the other hand, is a very specialized application and the main issue they've had is having to compete with cloud providers (MongoDB also shares this problem). It's a very different problem, and both companies (Elastic and Mongo) seem to be finding ways to compete and cooperate. Elastic on Amazon is a great gateway drug to Elasticco's offerings.