One of the better features of Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service) is Lucene Search, which gives our users the ability to search through the mountains of logs without giving them direct access to production systems. Another great feature is Index Lifecycle Management that allows us to move data to cheaper storage tiers as our data ages out. The feature that we love the best is LogsDB, which allows us to index our data differently so that it doesn't accumulate as much storage in our hot tier and allows us to ship many of those logs, especially older logs to cheaper storage such as S3. Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service) has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to move away from expensive services such as DataDog and gives us about the same level of service while allowing us to keep data for a longer period of time at a cheaper price.
