Leveraging AWS Elasticsearch
Recently I had an use case where I had to expose AWS DynamoDB search as an API. I could have gone with the common approach of using AWS API Gateway integrating with AWS Lambda which runs the search against the AWS DynamoDB as however this approach wouldn't be scalable under load. Alternative to the above solution would be to use AWS Elasticsearch Service . ElasticSearch is an open source product from Elastic that’s is designed to help us search in a way that is highly available and abstracted from datastore. AWS Elasticsearch Service is AWS hosted ElasticSearch that takes care of set-up and management of the back end server and provides us with an endpoint that we can get developing with. AWS Elasticsearch Service makes it easy to deploy, secure, operate, and scale Elasticsearch for log analytics, full text search, application monitoring, and more. AWS Elasticsearch Servic...