I am designing an application.This application is using elastic search as a search engine in one of its flow. I don’t have plans to use Kibana and I have my own Ui to see the ES data. I am looking to deploy this application on AWS EKS and also looking to deploy/install elastic search on AWS EKS. I am working in a big company and this is for a design of one of the product of that company.
So my question is, Do I need to buy elastic search license for it. If yes then which one. I am confused with Elastic Search licensing policies.
>Solution :
If you were hosting Elasticsearch as a managed service that you provide to your users, you’d need a license
As long as you’re using Elasticsearch as a component of your product (such as a search engine or database), you don’t have to buy a license as long as you’re only using feature in the Free and Open Tier
I’m a user, how does this license change affect me?
[…] If you build applications on top of Elasticsearch, nothing changes for you. […]
Feel free to consult their License FAQ that maybe answers your question more precisely.