Hosted vs Self-Managed
- Using a self-managed cluster appears cheaper as far as monthly quoted costs go
- Self-managed clusters allows greater control over configuration settings
- Greater control over access to data
- Costs for self-managed option should take operations effort in consideration
- Hosted ElasticSearch is likely operated by ElasticSearch specialists than enterprise operation generalists
- Ideally hosted option eliminates the need for over-planning
- Aws hosted ElasticSearch asks for number and type of ec2 instances to run on
- Bonsai.io pre-sale engineers asking for data volumes and usage patterns instead
- Sample quote from Bonsai.io: $2,950/mo for 1.5TB of raw data coming at 50kbps for index-mostly usage pattern
- Compare that to cost of self-management: hardware and ongoing operation cost
