> so tired of Elastic just randomly killing their clusters out of nowhere and having to spend basically triple to deal with it that they're bringing it all in house.

That is because Elastic Cloud is not a fully managed Elasticsearch. People often don't get that with Elastic Cloud you are still responsible for your ES cluster. That's one of the differentiators that e.g. Sematext has (disclaimer: founder).

> AWS's hosted solution is poor, Logz.io and ElasticCloud are expensive.

Right. Have a look at https://sematext.com/logsene pricing. People say Sematext compares favorably to Logz.io and Elastic Cloud.