Remove hidden network costs for your logs, metrics, and APM data

Elastic's Elasticsearch Service (ESS) offers a cost-effective solution for handling data such as logs, metrics, and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) by minimizing hidden network costs associated with data transfer. Unlike competitors like New Relic and DataDog, ESS provides extensive cloud provider and regional presence across 22 regions and three major cloud providers (Azure, GCP, and AWS), reducing data transfer costs by leveraging data locality. This is crucial because outbound data transfer across cloud regions incurs significant charges, especially for services that lack local endpoints and rely on US or EU regions, leading to higher fees. The document exemplifies how ESS's unique resource-based pricing model and regional availability can result in substantial cost savings compared to other SaaS solutions. By using scenarios involving different volumes of log data, metrics from various hosts, and APM data, the text demonstrates the potential financial advantages of choosing ESS over other vendors, emphasizing the importance of regional data processing to avoid punitive data-out charges.