Instaclustr today announced
the general availability of Instaclustr
Managed Elasticsearch. The addition of Elasticsearch to the Instaclustr Managed Platform
expands Instaclustr’s one-stop destination for deploying, managing, analyzing,
optimizing, and monitoring all components of enterprises’ data layer and
related infrastructure. Elasticsearch joins Apache
Cassandra, Apache Kafka,
and Apache
Spark as fast, scalable, resilient, and highly flexible 100% open source
solutions available under Instaclustr’s expert management and support.
Instaclustr-managed Elasticsearch is available on AWS. This is the first
managed service offering for the Open Distro for Elasticsearch outside of AWS’
own service (as the original sponsors of the Open Distro). Instaclustr is also
the first in the industry to offer enterprise support contracts for the Open
Distro for Elasticsearch, ideal for customers requiring support around
Elasticsearch installations that they manage themselves (including on-prem).
Elasticsearch’s linearly-scalable search technology delivers uniquely powerful
and flexible real-time search, analytics, and visualization capabilities –
making it possible to search “anything digital” at incredible speed. Based on Apache
Lucene and first launched a decade ago under the Apache 2.0 open source
license, Elasticsearch has earned its status as the de-facto search technology
solution for enterprises. The popularity comes from its elastic scaling
capabilities, which allow users to start small and very easily scale
deployments to handle growing data and search traffic volumes. Importantly,
Elasticsearch is a distributed technology built to provide high availability,
reliability, and fault tolerance -further adding to its readiness for
large-scale, production-ready deployments.
Despite its advantages, Elasticsearch is complex and technically challenging to
operate. Building and maintaining an efficient and scalable Elasticsearch
deployment requires significant in-house personnel expertise and expense. For
enterprises managing Elasticsearch internally, these burdens can absorb
resources that are often more effectively directed to product development and
other core business-growth initiatives.
With an Elasticsearch-as-a-Service offering based on the Open Distro for
Elasticsearch, Instaclustr is adding to its platform of complementary and open source data-layer
technologies. Providing these technologies in their open source versions
frees customers from “open core” alternatives that drive up license costs and
promote vendor lock-in.
Key features and benefits of Instaclustr Managed Elasticsearch include:
● Cluster provisioning, configuration, and monitoring using
the Instaclustr Management Console or REST APIs;
● Support for Amazon Web Services, with support for
Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform to follow;
● Easy horizontal scaling;
● Choice between running Elasticsearch via Instaclustr’s
cloud provider account at a fixed, infrastructure-inclusive cost or using a
preferred cloud provider account;
● Ability to deploy Elasticsearch as a Private Network
Cluster for enhanced security;
● Security features that include encryption of data in
transit and at rest, and access management via IP ranges or security groups;
● Compliance with SOC 2 security standards;
● Daily backups & restore;
● Assisted migration onto the Instaclustr Managed Platform
with zero downtime;
● Continual monitoring and alerting;
● Flexibility in deployment configuration – for example,
customers can deploy an Instaclustr Managed cluster within their existing VPC
to avoid cross-VPC network costs;
● Ready-made for production deployments with SLAs available
up to 99.99% (more details on Instaclustr Managed Elasticsearch availability
and latency SLAs here);
● Highly responsive 24×7 support from Instaclustr’s expert
team (more details on support and support SLAs here);
● New features will continue to be added, such as new Elasticsearch
plugins.
“As many enterprises continue to realize, Elasticsearch is a tremendously
advantageous open source solution for fast, scalable, resilient, and highly
flexible distributed search and analytics,” said Ben Slater, Chief Product
Officer, Instaclustr. “Adding a new technology to the Instaclustr Managed
Platform is never a decision we take lightly or make hastily. We have seen
first-hand how enterprises are benefiting from Elasticsearch in production
environments during an extensive early access program, and are now very excited
to launch the general availability of Instaclustr Managed Elasticsearch. This
is absolutely the easiest way for businesses to get the most out of
Elasticsearch while keeping costs down and their teams focused on business-critical
product development.”
To begin a free trial of Instaclustr Managed Elasticsearch visit here
