Elastic as a customer and competitor to AWS

Elastic as a customer and competitor to AWS

It’s a tricky dynamic for Elastic.  Elastic’s hosted Elasticsearch/Kibana offering runs on AWS, but AWS are also eating into their potential market with their own purely open-source offering.   All the bells and whistles that Elastic Cloud provides via its...
The rise and rise of Elasticsearch popularity

The rise and rise of Elasticsearch popularity

With the new v5 release of the Elastic Stack, I wanted to do a bit of homework and check out the momentum behind the Elasticsearch hype.  I especially wanted to compare between the two big beasts in the search jungle – Elasticsearch (and associated components...