Introduction to Amazon Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is an open source text search and analytics engine that's capable of storing, analyzing, and performing search functions against big volumes of data in near real time. You can use Elasticsearch to analyze all types of data such as textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured data.
Amazon's offering of Elasticsearch as a service comes as a fully managed service with no need to set up and manage any infrastructure, allowing you to focus on your applications and their functionalities. Following the same pay-as-you-consume model, there are also no upfront costs, although you can reserve instances for a 1- or 3-year term for a significant discount over the on-demand pricing model.
Amazon Elasticsearch is designed to be highly scalable and can index all types of content to help you deliver applications for use cases such as the following:
- Website search
- Application search
- Logging and log analytics...
