AWS has announced that its UltraWarm storage tier for Amazon Elasticsearch Service, which provides customers with fast interactive analysis of log data at one-tenth the cost of existing storage options, is now generally available. The Amazon Elasticsearch service makes it easy for users to collect, analyze, and display machine-generated log data from websites, mobile devices, and sensors. UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service offers Elasticsearch customers a warm storage tier that is capable of storing large amounts of data cost effectively and with a fast interactive experience. There is no upfront investment required for businesses that want to use UltraWarm and customers pay a simple hourly rate for the storage they use.
UltraWarm storage
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports two tiers of storage, Warm and UltraWarm. The top tier is primarily used for indexing, updating, and faster data access, while UltraWarm provides a distributed cache for the most frequently accessed data. UltraWarm also uses advanced location techniques to determine which blocks of data are less frequently accessed so they can be moved from the cache to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). UltraWarm stores data in Amazon S3 and provides up to 50% faster query execution than competitive top-tier solutions, as well as 80% lower cost than the top-tier storage of other Elasticsearch managed offerings. Customers can easily view search results of their recent long-term operational data using the service's Kibana interface. Explaining the benefits of UltraWarm storage in a press release, AWS Vice President of Databases and Analytics Raju Gulabani said, “Our customers tell us that log data provides a wealth of operational and security information, but that log data storage adds up quickly and is prohibitively expensive in the medium to long term. UltraWarm is the most cost-effective Elasticsearch-compliant storage solution available. It's also optimized for performance so customers can interactively investigate and visualize their data while adopting data at scale. " UltraWarm can be activated on existing or new domains using the AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDK, and the new storage tier is now available on Amazon Elasticsearch version 6.8 and higher in the US. US West, AWS GovCloud, Canada, South America, EU, Asia Pacific, China, and Middle East regions with more regions coming soon