Amazon OpenSearch Service vs Sumo Logic Security comparison

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Sumo Logic are both solutions in the Log Management category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #17 with an average rating of 7.8, while Sumo Logic is ranked #22 with an average rating of 7.3. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 1.2% mindshare in Log Management, compared to Sumo Logic’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Sumo Logic users who would recommend it.

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92% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 22, 2026

Sumo Logic Security and Amazon OpenSearch Service are major solutions in the logging and monitoring category. Sumo Logic seems to have the edge due to its strong support and pricing, although Amazon OpenSearch offers broad features and superior scalability and integration.

Features: Sumo Logic Security provides robust applications with threat intelligence integration and customizable alert capabilities. It features intuitive dashboards for real-time observability and efficient log aggregation. Amazon OpenSearch Service offers efficient search, scalability, and powerful analytics, with extensive support for AWS applications enabling fast data retrieval and comprehensive analytics.

Room for Improvement: Sumo Logic Security users face challenges with dashboard creation, manual log setup, and a steep learning curve. There’s a need for UI-driven functionalities and transparency in pricing. Amazon OpenSearch Service users report configuration difficulties, high costs, and limited customization as issues needing attention.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Sumo Logic Security is mainly deployed on the public cloud with praised support and engagement from its customer success team. Amazon OpenSearch Service, also used predominantly in public clouds, provides satisfactory support, though not as consistently praised as Sumo Logic's team.

Pricing and ROI: Sumo Logic Security is seen as cost-effective for its functionality, offering a good balance between price and features, resulting in time and cost-saving benefits. Amazon OpenSearch Service is perceived as more expensive, with managed service costs, but it provides significant value by reducing infrastructure management needs.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon OpenSearch Service

Ranking in Log Management

17th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (29th), Search as a Service (3rd)

Sumo Logic Security

Ranking in Log Management

22nd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (17th), Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Amazon OpenSearch Service is 1.2%, down from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sumo Logic Security is 1.4%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Log Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Amazon OpenSearch Service	1.2%
Sumo Logic Security	1.4%
Other	97.4%

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Md. Shahariar Hossen

Senior Software Engineer at Cefalo

Event tracking has become smoother and data analytics provide clear insights for user actions

Amazon OpenSearch Service is not providing the processing feature directly. From Amazon OpenSearch Service, we are actually maintaining the AWS SQS, the queue service, which is responsible for providing information about what data has to be modified. So using that SQS, we're actually providing it, but we're not directly using Amazon OpenSearch Service for keeping data to other data pipeline thing. So far we didn't use it for any machine learning purposes, but in future, we have plans to extend or implement this feature. Since AWS itself is secure and Amazon OpenSearch Service is a part of this entire ecosystem, it becomes much easier for security purposes. From the validation point of view, Amazon OpenSearch Service itself provides easy to communicate APIs and up-to-date documents, which is much beneficial. For example, if I'm missing anything, I can directly go and check the documentation. That is actually much easier. I would rate it as really good so far. It's much faster. For our local machine, we can also use a kind of replica of Amazon OpenSearch Service just for development purposes. That is another good feature. I would say for the encryption thing and also the user access control management, it's much faster. For some of these hashing algorithms, it also worked really well so far. To be honest, I didn't find any places where it can be improved. However, I think they could provide more abstraction. For example, still for searching, we have to write down the queries in a specific manner, such as for a specific JSON structure or in a specific way. Otherwise, they don't provide us the actual results. For at least this purpose, I think abstraction could be a bit easier or a bit improved. Other than that, right now there is the age of AI, so some kind of prompting could also work, but I'm not sure how it could be integrated. As a user, lower prices or reasonable pricing is always better. Those can be improved as well. However, it is good that most of the services including Amazon OpenSearch Service actually provide pay as you go pricing. So if there were a bit lower version or a bit less payment methodology, it might be much better.

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Migell Roberts

Senior Security Analyst at City Electric Supply Company

Security insights have enabled faster incident response and streamlined cross-team collaboration

To improve Sumo Logic Security, I would appreciate the tool being easier to use from a search perspective. For example, we have a few teams that want to use the tool itself, but they are not as savvy when it comes to creating searches from the core platform. I understand that Mobot has come out and is in the works, and it really does assist non-savvy users when it comes to querying the platform. As far as that is concerned, I wish that could be improved a bit more, but I do know that that is in the works. I would add that I wish for improved documentation. For example, we are using Sumo Playbooks and automation integrations along with that, but I have found that there has been a lack of documentation, very little to none at all when it comes to that. With regards to automation integrations as well, there are very few details included in them. I would also appreciate the AWS automation integrations to be more secure because currently, they are using access keys, which involves a user rather than roles, which is the security best practice recommended by AWS. I chose eight out of ten because to make it a nine or ten, I would lean heavily on the documentation. A lot of the times when we get around to configuring things such as playbooks or trying to understand playbooks, what I found was that documentation sometimes is not up to date or documentation is lacking. There are instances also where some security best practices are not being followed. So, if we are able to set up an integration that is not only secure, following security best practices, and has complete documentation, I believe it would alleviate the issue of having to go back and forth with support to check the documentation and things of that nature. My impression of the built-in threat intelligence feature in Sumo Logic Security is that it is comprehensive, but I would say that it could do a little bit better. For example, we have the TAXI feeds, which is STIX and TAXI integrated into the core platform, but the issue I am running into is that I am able to use that feed into a CSE alert; however, I am not able to see the contents of that feed. If I integrate CISA, which we do have integrated, I cannot see what IOCs are in that feed in the core platform, and I hope that is the case because, in order for us to better tune our alerts, we need to be able to see what is in the contents of that threat intelligence feed.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"This service already sorts data like vectors. They have classified the storage pre-defined."

"The most valuable features of Amazon Elasticsearch are ease of use, native JSON, and efficiency. Additionally, handles many use cases and search grammar was useful."

"Amazon OpenSearch Service provides a managed database solution, so we don't need to manage everything ourselves."

"We retrieve historical data with just a click of a button to move it from cold to hot or warm because it's already stored in the backend storage"

"Amazon OpenSearch Service has enhanced our organization's ability to store and search large amounts of data efficiently."

"I would definitely recommend Amazon OpenSearch Service to other professionals due to its fast and reliable search capabilities."

"The business analytics capabilities are the most important feature it provides."

"In case there is a failure, Elastic manages everything well, and there no major downtime."

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"Sumo Logic is a single place to retrieve intelligence without worrying about architecture and performance."

"Sumo Logic Security is a good solution for searching the logs and identifying the issues."

"It helps a lot because we can troubleshoot issues pretty easily."

"The most valuable features of Sumo Logic Security are the rules, use cases, and ease of use. Additionally, the integration is straightforward and good GUI."

"Sumo Logic has absolutely improved our organization — 100% Sumo Logic is a great tool, it's absolutely necessary."

"Compared to other tools, I prefer the UI much better as it categorizes data very well for me."

"Pricing has been cheaper than some of the competing tools, like Splunk."

"Sumo Logic Security has positively impacted my organization by increasing engagement with different teams."

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Cons

"Amazon Elasticsearch can improve the bullion in the near search and the ease of integration with Kibana. Additionally, there could be more flexibility in the configuration and documentation."

"In terms of data handling capabilities with Amazon OpenSearch Service, they can be complex and managing data in comparison to other SIM solutions is a major drawback, as it is very hard to handle the data."

"I would say that, basically, the configuration part is an area with a shortcoming...Some upgradation is required on the configuration side so that we can get to use it."

"One glaring issue was with our mapping configuration as the system accepted the data we posted, but after a few months, when we attempted complex queries, we realized the date formatting had become problematic."

"We faced documentation challenges during integration after migrating from Elasticsearch to Amazon OpenSearch Service. Better documentation on integration, query handling, and a more user-friendly UI could enhance the product."

"They can enhance data visualization."

"As a user, lower prices or reasonable pricing is always better."

"I want to see a new feature in Amazon Elasticsearch Service that allows users to create default filters for filtered levels."

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"Some of the operations and security team members don't think Sumo Logic does as well as Splunk in their field."

"If you want to up your subscription through the AWS Marketplace, it can be difficult. You can't just go back to the AWS Marketplace, and say, "I want a bigger one now." You have to contact the sales team, then they do it on the back-end. This could definitely be improved."

"The initial setup is the most stressful, like learning how to use it."

"Sumo Logic Security is expensive, and its pricing could be improved."

"The correlation rules and log mapping are not as mature compared to other SIM tools like Splunk."

"In terms of improvement, feedback indicates there is a need for a local data center in my country. This is crucial to sell to the government and financial sectors as they require data retention within each country."

"This can lead to alerts that are collections of disjointed signals that sometimes make no sense and lack real context; this simplistic approach makes it hard to find coherent stories during investigations."

"If you want to up your subscription through the AWS Marketplace, it can be difficult."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a community edition available and the price of the commercial offering is reasonable."

"The solution is not expensive, but priced averagely, I will say."

"You only pay for what you use."

"Compared to other cloud platforms, it is manageable and not very expensive."

"The product is costly."

"The only limit to the scalability of the product for us is how much we are willing to pay."

"The pricing is good. It's not an issue for us."

"If we went to ELK Stack, which is open source, it would have been less costly, but it would have required more development from our side."

"The AWS Marketplace pricing is fairly reasonable for what it does. I wouldn't call it expensive, but I wouldn't call it cheap. It is pretty good."

"We chose to go through the AWS Marketplace because it makes it a lot easier when we bill our customers. Rather than having to get multiple different sources of information then correlate a monthly bill for our customers, it is just included in the AWS usage charges."

"Purchasing the solution through the AWS Marketplace is very easy."

"The price scaling comes in a bit expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Outsourcing Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	16

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon OpenSearch Service?

I would consider the pricing as a six based on how much data we are handling; if we handle minimal data, it's cheap, but for large data, it becomes costly. Our clients usually pay between $1,000 to...

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What needs improvement with Amazon OpenSearch Service?

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What is your primary use case for Amazon OpenSearch Service?

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a user-friendly version of Elasticsearch, as per my understanding. I have been using it for our volunteer management system where around 5,000 to 6,000 users are using ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sumo Logic Security?

I would say that the pricing for Sumo Logic Security is in the medium part of the market. If you go to the well-known vendors such as Azure Sentinel or other tools like Splunk, you are going to fin...

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What needs improvement with Sumo Logic Security?

I would say there are a few more things that Sumo Logic Security can improve on. It is not the tool; it is a technical part. From the app point of view, I would say when we need to include a few la...

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What is your primary use case for Sumo Logic Security?

I use Sumo Logic Security.

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Overview

Amazon OpenSearch Service provides scalable and reliable search capabilities with efficient data processing, supporting easy domain configuration and integration with numerous systems for enhanced performance.

Amazon OpenSearch Service offers advanced features for handling JSON, diverse search grammars, quick historical data retrieval, and ultra-warm storage. It also includes customizable dashboards and seamless tool integration for large enterprises. With its managed infrastructure, OpenSearch Service supports efficient system analysis and business analytics, improving overall performance and flexibility. Despite these features, areas like configuration complexity, lack of auto-scaling, and integration with Kibana require attention. Users seek enhanced documentation, better pricing options, and more flexible data handling. Desired improvements include default filters, mapping configuration, and alerting capabilities. Enhanced data visualization and Compute Optimizer Service integration are also recommended for future updates.

What features define Amazon OpenSearch Service?

Scalable Search: Offers reliable search capabilities across vast datasets.
JSON Handling: Supports efficient management of JSON data.
Ultra-warm Storage: Enables cost-effective historical data retrieval.
Dashboard Customization: Supports tool integration and tailored visuals.
System Upgrades: Allows for seamless infrastructure upgrades.

What benefits and ROI should users consider?

Performance Enhancement: Significant improvement in search and data retrieval.
Cost-Effectiveness: Provides a cloud-native solution optimized for AWS environments.
Comprehensive Analytics: Delivers detailed insights for business applications.

Amazon OpenSearch Service is utilized in various industries for log management, data storage, and search capabilities. It supports infrastructure and embedded management, analyzing logs from AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, and other services. Companies use it for application debugging, monitoring security and performance, and customer behavior analysis, integrating it with tools like DynamoDB and Snowflake for a cost-effective solution.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Sumo Logic Security offers efficient event monitoring with customizable alerts, centralized log search, and real-time threat detection. It supports multi-cloud environments and integrates with threat intelligence, reducing workload with AI-driven analytics.

Sumo Logic Security empowers organizations with advanced logging and monitoring solutions, facilitating comprehensive security event management. Its robust log search and comparison features, combined with user-friendly dashboards, enable quick event analysis. The platform's multi-cloud support and real-time threat detection are notable features, seamlessly integrating automated log correlation and AI analytics to optimize user experience. Despite needing enhancements in querying and dashboard functionalities, Sumo Logic Security remains a reliable choice for application log management, IT asset visibility, and incident alerting. Organizations utilize it for threat detection, posture monitoring, and compliance audits, in platforms like AWS, focusing on security insights and performance monitoring.

What are the key features of Sumo Logic Security?

Log Search: Facilitates centralized search and event analysis.
Custom Alerts: Offers flexibility in monitoring specific security events.
AI-driven Analytics: Reduces workload and speeds up response times.
Real-time Detection: Ensures swift threat identification and mitigation.
Multi-cloud Support: Enables integrations across cloud environments.

What benefits can users expect from Sumo Logic Security?

Ease of Implementation: Quick setup and deployment processes.
Cost-effective Pricing: Provides value-driven investment with supportive customer service.
Responsive UI: Enhances user experience and efficiency in operations.
Compliance Audits: Facilitates thorough security audits and reporting.

Organizations in industries like finance and technology implement Sumo Logic Security to maintain security and compliance, leveraging its advanced monitoring and alerting capabilities. Teams focus on application troubleshooting and forensic analysis, ensuring robust security posture and effective incident response across cloud-based environments.

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Sample Customers

VIDCOIN, Wyng, Yellow New Zealand, zipMoney, Cimri, Siemens, Unbabel

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