Amazon Elasticsearch Domain Size Calculation
Introduction In this article, I would be describing the ES(Elasticsearch) terms necessary for understanding the calculation. After acquainting you about Amazon ES, I will tell you about how to calculate the minimum storage size and number of shards required for Elasticsearch with example. Elasticsearch Elasticsearch is an open-source analytics engine for use cases such as log analytics, real-time application monitoring and clickstream analytics. Node A Node is an EC2 instance. Elasticsearch Cluster Elasticsearch Cluster is a collection of one or more node(server) that holds the entire data and provides federated indexing and search capabilities across all nodes. Amazon Elasticsearch Amazon Elasticsearch is a managed service, which makes it easy to deploy, operate and scale Elasticsearch clusters in the AWS cloud. What Amazon Elasticsearch manages Amazon ES provisions all the resources for the Elasticsearch cluster and launches it. It autom...