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In this recipe, you will learn how to create an Elasticsearch domain, configure the CloudWatch Logs agent on an EC2 instance, and stream those logs to Elasticsearch so that you can search them with Kibana:

Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Choose Development and testing to limit the size of the cluster. Be aware that this recipe will not fall under the free tier! There will be charges associated with setting up a test domain:

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