AWS Elasticsearch: Some things you should know before using Amazon’s serviceI write this following a particularly frustrating day of thumb twiddling and awaiting slack messages from the AWS support team. Our Elasticsearch cluster was down for the better part of a day, and we were engaged with AWS support the whole time. At my previous job working for Loggly, my team and I maintained a massive, multi-cluster Elasticsearch deployment. I learned many lessons and have a lot o
