We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS CloudSearch and Elastic Search based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Search as a Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Document indexing, text-based search API, and Geospatial searches are all good features."
"CDN service reduces latency when accessing our web application."
"It is remarkably efficient and beneficial."
"The best feature is its scalability in that Cloud is always on the fly."
"It's the best solution for any company. It has a hosting ERP system for any task. AWS is stable. AWS is more flexible and its elastic concept is a new concept. AWS is also very secure. It has many layers of security, like hardware security and software security. This is a big issue."
"It will remain alive in the market. The solution will be stable in the market."
"The quality of the solution is good."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable features are the ease and speed of the setup."
"Dashboard is very customizable."
"The solution is quite scalable and this is one of its advantages."
"The most valuable features are its user-friendly interface and seamless navigation."
"The most valuable features of Elastic Enterprise Search are it's cloud-ready and we do a lot of infrastructure as code. By using ELK, we're able to deploy the solution as part of our ISC deployment."
"The most valuable features are the detection and correlation features."
"I really like the visualization that you can do within it. That's really handy. Product-wise, it is a very good and stable product."
"The solution offers good stability."
"The price of the solution can be expensive."
"AWS CloudSearch's documentation isn't very clear. Also, the on-premise version of the solution is less stable than the cloud version."
"I do not have any suggestions for improvements at this time."
"I would say that it needs to keep its cost competitive in the market, especially in comparison to other clouds."
"We'd like to see more database features."
"The solution should improve the recovery aspects that it has on offer."
"Regarding the period of propagation on CDN servers, sometimes we update photos or files and we don't see the update instantly. We need to wait for sometime."
"Maybe they are common in Egypt, but you should make a request on Amazon to create a function to monitor CPU performance, memory, and files. It is very difficult in AWS. I would tell them it should be simple, just drag and drop. I think they could develop this option so we can drag and drop to monitor performance of the processor and memory."
"I don't see improvements at the moment. The current setup is working well for me, and I'm satisfied with it. Integrating with different platforms is also fine, and I'm not recommending any changes or enhancements right now."
"There are a lot of manual steps on the operating system. It could be simplified in the user interface."
"Elastic Search could benefit from a more user-friendly onboarding process for beginners."
"The solution has quite a steep learning curve. The usability and general user-friendliness could be improved. However, that is kind of typical with products that have a lot of flexibility, or a lot of capabilities. Sometimes having more choices makes things more complex. It makes it difficult to configure it, though. It's kind of a bitter pill that you have to swallow in the beginning and you really have to get through it."
"The reports could improve."
"We see the need for some improvements with Elasticsearch. We would like the Elasticsearch package to include training lessons for our staff."
"There is a lack of technical people to develop, implement and optimize equipment operation and web queries."
"Elastic Enterprise Search's tech support is good but it could be improved."
Amazon AWS CloudSearch is ranked 5th in Search as a Service with 12 reviews while Elastic Search is ranked 1st in Search as a Service with 59 reviews. Amazon AWS CloudSearch is rated 8.4, while Elastic Search is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS CloudSearch writes "A reasonably priced solution that provides scalability, stability, reliability, and security". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Search writes "Played a crucial role in enhancing our cybersecurity efforts ". Amazon AWS CloudSearch is most compared with Solr, Amazon Kendra, Algolia, Amazon Athena and Azure Search, whereas Elastic Search is most compared with Faiss, Milvus, Pinecone, Azure Search and Lucidworks. See our Amazon AWS CloudSearch vs. Elastic Search report.
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