AWS re:Invent 2015 | (BDT209) New! Amazon Elasticsearch Service for Real-time Analytics

Organizations are collecting an ever-increasing amount of data from numerous sources such as log systems, click streams, and connected devices. Launched in 2009, Elasticsearch —an open-source analytics and search engine— has emerged as a popular tool for real-time analytics and visualization of data. Some of the most common use cases include risk assessment, error detection, and sentiment analysis. However, as data volumes and applications grow, managing Elasticsearch clusters can consume significant IT resources while adding little or no differentiated value to the organization. Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch clusters in the AWS Cloud. Amazon ES offers the benefits of a managed service, including cluster provisioning, easy configuration, replication for high availability, scaling options, data durability, security, and node monitoring. This session presents a technical deep dive on Amazon ES. Attendees learn: Common challenges with real-time data analytics and visualization and how to address them; the benefits, reference architecture, and best practices for using Amazon ES; and data ingestion options with Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Kinesis.