What is Amazon Elasticsearch?

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, and click stream analytics.

Is Elasticsearch an Amazon product?

Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service and Supports OpenSearch 1.0. In 2015, we launched Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES), a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more.

What is difference between Elasticsearch and AWS Elasticsearch?

Developers describe Amazon Elasticsearch Service as “Real-time, distributed search and analytics engine that fits nicely into a cloud environment”. . On the other hand, Elasticsearch is detailed as “Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine”.

Why did Amazon fork Elasticsearch?

The company said at the time that its motive was to prevent cloud service providers — e.g. AWS — from offering Elasticsearch as a service without collaborating on the project or giving anything back.

Who uses Elasticsearch?

Companies like Wikipedia, Github, NY Times or Facebook all use Elasticsearch for various use cases: from easy search for all 164 years of published articles to instantaneous live chat or seamless e-commerce experience, any business that needs to serve information in a fast way can put Elasticsearch to good use.

What is Elasticsearch and how it works?

Elasticsearch allows you to store, search, and analyze huge volumes of data quickly and in near real-time and give back answers in milliseconds. It’s able to achieve fast search responses because instead of searching the text directly, it searches an index.

When did Elasticsearch become OpenSearch?

September 8, 2021
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. Visit the website to learn more. Today, we are introducing the OpenSearch project, a community-driven, open source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana.

Who owns elastic?

Shay Banon
Elasticsearch