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AWS Solutions Architect – Professional
AWS ElasticSearch - ES
- Is a managed implementation of ElasticSearch (open source search solution)
- ElasticSearch is part of the ELK stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana)
- ElasticSearch is not serverless, it runs in a VPC using compute
- ES is an alternative to AWS services
- Can be used for log analytics, monitoring, security analytics, full text search and indexing, clickstream analytics
ELK Stack
- ElasticSearch: search and indexing services
- Kibana: visualization and dashboard tool
- Logstash: similar to CloudWatch Logs, needs a Logstash agent installed on anything to ingest data