ElasticSearch¶

• Example: In DynamoDB, you can only find by [[primary key]] or [[indexes]]
• With ElasticSearch you can search any field, even partial matches
• It's common to use ElasticSearch as a complement to another [[database]]
• ElasticSearch also has some usage for [[Big Data]] applications
• You can provision a [[cluster]] of instances
• Built-in integrations: Kinesis Firehose, [[AWS IoT]], and CloudWatch Logs for data ingestion
• Security though Programming/AWS/Cognito/AWS Cognito & IAM, AWS KMS (Key Management Service) encryption, [[SSL]] & VPC Summary
• Comes with [[Kibana]] (visualization) & [[Logstash]] (log ingestion)- [[ELK stack]]