Elastic Stack as a Service
Elasticsearch is a popular service that is available as a hosted option by both Elastic.co and AWS. Elastic Cloud (https://www.elastic.co/cloud/) does not have an infrastructure of its own, but it offers the option to spin up deployments on AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure. Because Elastic Cloud is built on other public cloud VM offerings, the cost will be a bit more than getting it directly from the cloud provider, such as AWS:
Figure 5: Elastic Cloud offerings
AWS offers a hosted Elasticsearch product (https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/) that is tightly integrated with the existing AWS offerings. For example, AWS CloudWatch Logs can be streamed directly to the AWS Elasticsearch instance (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/CWL_ES_Stream.html):
Figure 6: AWS Elasticsearch service
From my own experience, as attractive as the Elastic Stack is for its advantages, it is a project that I feel is...