Completely agree, use Elasticsearch the companies offering. After being bitten by previously no VPC support for AWS Elasticsearch (though supported now), and blue-green deploys even with a small configuration changes (used to be security policy updates even) that can take 12-24 hours I generally don't recommend AWS Elasticsearch.

Since I worked for Amazon and saw how the sausage was made, I am reluctant to ever use AWS again. Random grab bags of teams using all different tech with different coding standards and methodology. Jerry-rigged micro-services turned into APIs through total object instantiation rather than efficient mutable updates.

not just 'someone', the creator of Elasticsearch

Color me embarassed heh.

Pretty awesome though.

Someone should point him to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21228693 too.

Their ESCloud is yet another unit. :D

Also, based on the previous in incident regarding search guard copying xpack code, I am guessing that there is maybe some intent to get AWS to just buy out ES , thus carving a wonderful exit. Just thinking!