Elastic has announced significant performance enhancements for its Elastic Cloud Serverless offering on Amazon Web Services, claiming up to 50% higher indexing throughput and 37% lower search latency. The upgrade, completed through migration to AWS Graviton instances, is now available to all serverless customers at no additional cost.
Performance Improvements
According to a company blog post, Elastic completed a major infrastructure upgrade for all AWS-based serverless projects. The migration to newer AWS Graviton instances delivers:
- Indexing throughput: Up to 50% faster
- Search latency: Up to 37% reduction
- Resource scaling: Better handling of traffic spikes
- Data volume capacity: Ability to index larger volumes more quickly
The company states the upgrade is automatic and requires no configuration changes from users, providing immediate performance gains across its fully managed search, observability, and security solutions.
The performance boost positions Elastic more competitively against cloud-native services, particularly Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. By leveraging AWS’s own Graviton processors, Elastic aims to deliver superior performance on its competitor’s infrastructure, neutralizing a key advantage for AWS’s integrated offering.
The improvements are particularly relevant for real-time data visibility and AI applications like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), where indexing speed and search latency directly impact user experience and application performance.
Because Elastic uses usage-based pricing, the hardware efficiency gains could translate to cost reductions for many workloads. The company is positioning the upgrade as delivering better performance-per-dollar, targeting developers who might otherwise default to AWS’s native solutions.
The move reflects broader industry trends where cloud customers are scrutinizing infrastructure costs, pushing providers to deliver greater efficiency. Elastic’s ability to demonstrate sustained performance and cost advantages will be critical in the competitive cloud infrastructure market.
Availability and Next Steps
The infrastructure upgrade is immediately available for all Elastic Cloud Serverless customers on AWS. No action is required from users to benefit from the performance improvements.
Independent benchmarks comparing Elastic’s enhanced serverless offering against Amazon OpenSearch Serverless and competitors like Datadog will likely emerge as customers test the claimed performance gains in production environments.
Elastic’s focus on performance-per-dollar metrics suggests the company will emphasize cost efficiency in marketing efforts aimed at attracting developers evaluating serverless search and observability solutions on AWS.
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