Uri Cohen reveals how Elastic transformed from managing 50,000 complex clusters to building a seamless serverless platform that eliminates operational overhead while scaling globally
Topics Include:
- Johan Broman of AWS hosts Uri Cohen who leads Elastic's platform products team
- Uri shares his nine-year journey at Elastic from small company to global scale
- Elasticsearch started 15 years ago, becoming popular for search, logs, and security events
- Elastic Cloud launched 2015, but users struggled with shards, nodes, and infrastructure complexity
- Serverless eliminates operational concerns, letting users just ingest and analyze their data
- Design goal: maintain familiar Elasticsearch experience while removing all infrastructure management burden
- Chose complete architectural redesign over retrofitting auto-scaling to existing infrastructure
- New architecture uses S3 persistence with lightweight routing layer serving 50,000+ clusters
- Cell-based design limits blast radius and improves multi-tenancy across 40+ global regions
- Learned S3 API costs can explode unexpectedly without careful request pattern optimization
- AI transforms security workflows: 10,000 alerts become 3 actionable attack summaries automatically
- Weekly continuous deployment enables faster innovation delivery without waiting for version releases
Participants:
- Uri Cohen – Vice President of Product Management, Platform, Elastic
- Johan Broman – EMEA ISV Head of Solutions Architecture, Amazon Web Services
See how Amazon Web Services gives you the freedom to migrate, innovate, and scale your software company at https://aws.amazon.com/isv/
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