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ElasticCo's offering is no better, and has its own shortcomings. The biggest shortcoming is its actually not multi-az. We were down 3 times in 2018, and unfortunately had to switch to AWS ESS. Majority of their outages were also faults of their load balancer.

We've had a few of the problems described here, but so far its better then being down.

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Elastic Cloud is a train wreck.

We found a bug in their Web UI that caused the RAM slider to slide but not change the value it submitted.

We tried to upgrade the RAM to the max, but the field defaults to smallest. Slider moved, but value didn’t change. Upgraded a 192GB cluster to 1GB. Shit blew up. Took three days for support to respond.

They don't even do multi-node for node sizes smaller than 58gb RAM. Dedicated master is not available until the cluster size at least 6 nodes of 58gb RAM. Multi-master is not available.

I'm not sure if this is based on research or optimal configuration size, but it seems very expensive to get a 3-node cluster going on ElasticCo.

Does anybody have experience with compose? (https://compose.com/databases/elasticsearch)

There's also https://www.instaclustr.com

We don't use them but had a pretty in depth conversation with them about Kafka and they seemed sharp.

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