Thread: looking for managed elastic search hosting provider

Hi,
we're looking for a hosting provider who can provide a stable managed elastic search server to use with a Magento 2 website.
The minimum version of elastic search is 7.17+

Currently we spend around 100$ / month in AWS for opensearch service, but due to compatibility reasons we need to swap to a pure elasticsearch service.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

You can run opensearch with newer magento versions otherwise you'll need an ES 7 instance, which you can do with the AWS managed service as well. If you want to reduce costs either commit to the instance for 12 months (in general you'll be around 30% with no upfront) and it's absolutely necessary when you have larger instancee.

You'll struggle to find a good external managed ES provider , with low latency to your region, for such a small monthly amount. Given it's just a Magento store, you have no complex requirements, so your best option is to simply run your own elasticsearch daemon in your own EC2 instance.

Maybe you could use the Elastic cloud provided by elastic.co themselves

I'd recommend running ES locally alongside the magento 2.

Couple reasons:

- Latency
- Less complexity

Run monit to check on ES Port.

You can also run other NMS systems such as zabbix, checkmk, librenms to monitor ES and send alerts.

Magento 2 doesn't use ES's functions 100% ( imo ) so its usage is relatively low compared to PHP, MySQL, Redis & Varnish.

Also running it on the same VM enables collective scaling, rather than services spread out on different VM's.

Hope this helps

votes for local run with generic ES at a few VM, indeed, quite doable and customization is fairely straightforward when you have compatibility issue