Elastic and AWS in 2024: Celebrating innovation synergy at AWS re:Invent

Last week, more than 60,000 AWS enthusiasts, experts, and practitioners attended the weeklong AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas while exploring the latest innovations, networking, and learning from 2,000+ sessions.

AWS re:Invent is the tech world’s blockbuster event. As a Diamond Sponsor, Elastic was pumped to dive in and connect with IT leaders, customers, and the AWS partner ecosystem.

Our booth was buzzing with incredible energy, drawing massive crowds of AWS re:Invent attendees eager to learn more about our solutions and engage with our team — maybe you were one of them! This provided ample opportunity to showcase how our users can build transformative applications, proactively resolve observability issues, and address complex security threats — all with the Elastic Search AI Platform on AWS. 

This blog highlights our top moments at AWS re:Invent and our collaboration with AWS to better serve customers in 2024.

Elastic at AWS re:Invent 2024

Announcements

General availability of Elastic Cloud Serverless on AWS
Our most exciting announcement at the event was the general availability of Elastic Cloud Serverless on AWS. Powered by a rearchitectured Elasticsearch that is built on an industry-first Search AI Lake optimized for real-time applications, it combines vast storage with low-latency querying and all of the strengths of Elasticsearch’s AI and search capabilities. It’s also available in four different AWS regions.

Blogs

• Elasticsearch Serverless — built on a new stateless architecture — is fully managed so that you can get projects started quickly without operations or upgrades. It also gives you access to the latest vector search and generative AI capabilities.

• Elastic Security on Elastic Cloud Serverless empowers security teams to get up and running quickly, complementing existing options for on-premises, hybrid cloud, and multicloud infrastructures. This unmatched versatility ensures that your strategy can adapt with evolving business needs.

• Elastic Observability on Elastic Cloud Serverless enables site reliability engineers (SREs) to monitor and optimize their environments with ease. Our Search AI Lake — with its cloud-native architecture — separates compute and storage allowing SREs to scale telemetry ingest, optimize storage, and use advanced AI for actionable insights. 

• Crafting a hybrid geospatial RAG application with Elastic and Amazon Bedrock: With Elasticsearch and its vector database, you can build configurable search and trusted GenAI experiences that scale from prototype to production fast. This blog post explores how to build a powerful retrieval augmented generation (RAG) system that incorporates geospatial data using Elasticsearch, Amazon Bedrock, and LangChain.

• Stream AWS metrics to Elastic using Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams: When you need to extend your monitoring and analytics beyond CloudWatch, integrating CloudWatch with Elastic can be a game changer. This integration offers real-time data streaming to enable faster detection of anomalies, more granular insights, and better operational visibility.

Elastic breakout sessions at AWS re:Invent 2024
Yaru Lin and William Easton presented Elastic Cloud Serverless: A New Stateless Architecture for Speed, Scale, and Cost-Efficiency. Watch here.

Jeff Vestal, Uday Thiepireddy, and Ayan Ray presented Building RAG Applications with open source Elasticsearch and Amazon Bedrock. Watch here.

Interviews
Elastic CEO Ashutosh Kulkarni sat down with SiliconANGLE and theCUBE for an interview on AI-powered search, governance, large language model (LLM) security, and more. Watch here.

Ajay Nair, general manager of platform, joined GenAI LIVE! The AWS generative AI partners show streamed live on YouTube straight from the show floor. Watch here.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
To champion the empowerment of women in the technology sector, Alyssa Fitzpatrick, global VP of partner sales, spoke at the Women in Tech roundtable sponsored by Kyndryl. The session featured diverse perspectives on the unique obstacles women encounter in tech, such as breaking into leadership, combating gender bias, and finding balance between professional and personal life.

Various Elastic experts also presented 29 lightning talks across a wide variety of Elastic use cases. These short yet deep technical overviews garnered the attention of over 1,200 attendees across all industries and technical specializations.

Building momentum together: 2024 recap

Our partnership momentum with AWS has continued to grow substantially throughout 2024. Below is a recap of our joint efforts over the past year to help you address your evolving use cases and derive the most value possible from Elastic on AWS.

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