# Limitations for AWS hosted ES Instances

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limitations-for-aws-hosted-es-instances/240303>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 8, 2020, 8:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limitations-for-aws-hosted-es-instances/240303 "2020-07-08T08:50:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Flora\_Dev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flora_dev/32/51425_2.png) [@Flora\_Dev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Flora_Dev)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 8:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limitations-for-aws-hosted-es-instances/240303/1 "2020-07-08T08:50:02Z")

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Hello Experts,

We have m5.xlarge.elasticsearch instance hosted for product search and index purpose (retail products, images, product descriptions ect.,) In AWS cloudwatch perspective I want to set alarm for Index Rate / Search Rate / Index Latency and search latency. It would be grateful if someone can help me o define threshold values for specified metrics.

Hosted Instances - m5.2xlarge.elasticsearch & m5.xlarge.elasticsearch

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limitations-for-aws-hosted-es-instances/240303/2 "2020-07-08T21:36:56Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

> [@Flora\_Dev](#):
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> It would be grateful if someone can help me o define threshold values for specified metrics.

These would be specific to you, based on your historic measurements and business requirements of the system.

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**Author:** ![Flora\_Dev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flora_dev/32/51425_2.png) [@Flora\_Dev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Flora_Dev)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 7:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limitations-for-aws-hosted-es-instances/240303/3 "2020-07-09T07:23:44Z")

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Hi Mark, Thank you. Is there any benchmark reference or documents available to scale ES performance?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limitations-for-aws-hosted-es-instances/240303/4 "2020-07-09T07:58:48Z")

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There's quite a bit out there, including on our blog, and other places that you will find via other sizing based topics on here 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limitations-for-aws-hosted-es-instances/240303/5 "2020-08-06T07:58:51Z")

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Closed on August 6, 2020, 7:58am UTC

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