Description: Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS announces UltraWarm (preview) for Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Posted On: Dec 3, 2019
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers UltraWarm, a performance-optimized warm storage tier. UltraWarm lets you store and interactively analyze your data using Elasticsearch and Kibana while reducing your cost per GB by up to 90% over existing Amazon Elasticsearch Service hot storage options. With UltraWarm, Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports hot-warm domain configurations. Hot storage is used for indexing and providing the fastest access to data. UltraWarm complements hot storage with less expensiv
Real-time analysis of machine-generated data is essential in identifying and resolving operational and security issues for modern applications. With hot storage, Amazon Elasticsearch Service can ingest large amounts of log data and analyze it in real time, but storing months or years of data can be cost-prohibitive at scale. Some users of Elasticsearch use storage-dense D2 instances for warm storage, but that solution struggles to achieve high utilization and requires replica shards for durability.