Simon chats with Jon Handler (AWS Principal Solutions Architect) about a raft of useful updates and new capabilities of the Amazon Elasticsearch Service. Shownotes: VPC Support: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-elasticsearch-service-now-supports-vpc/ Encryption (What’s new): https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/12/encryption-at-rest-now-available-on-amazon-elasticsearch-service/ Cognito Support: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/get-started-with-amazon-elasticsearch-service-use-amazon-cognito-for-kibana-access-control/ Slow Logs Support: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/viewing-amazon-elasticsearch-service-slow-logs/ Slow Logs, deeper dive: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/analyzing-amazon-elasticsearch-service-slow-logs-using-amazon-cloudwatch-logs-streaming-and-kibana/ Reserved Instances: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/05/amazon-elasticsearch-service-offers-additional-cost-savings-with-reserved-instances/ ES 6.0: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/12/elasticsearch-6-0-now-available-on-amazon-elasticsearch-service/ ES 6.2: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/elasticsearch62-now-available-on-amazon-elasticsearch-service/ PB Scale (I3s): https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/12/run-petabyte-scale-clusters-on-amazon-elasticsearch-service-using-i3-instances/ SeunJeon: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-elasticsearch-service-now-supports-the-seunjeon-plugin-for-improved-korean-language-analysis/ Instant access policy updates: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/amazon-elasticsearch-service-now-supports-instant-access-policy-updates/ GovCloud: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/02/amazon-elasticsearch-service-now-available-in-the-aws-govcloud-us-region/ All ES blogs on the databases blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/tag/elasticsearch/