Instaclustr, a provider of fully managed solutions for scalable open source technologies, is releasing Instaclustr Managed Elasticsearch, expanding 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.
“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,” said Ben Slater, chief product officer, Instaclustr. “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.”
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).
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.”
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.
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.
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 24x7 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.
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