Vector Search in Elasticsearch: Building Production-Ready AI-Powered Search That Actually Scales
Vector Search in Elasticsearch: Building Production-Ready AI-Powered Search That Actually Scales After our Elasticsearch bill hit $3,000/month for basic vector search, I learned these optimization tricks that cut costs by 85% while improving relevance. Three months ago, our team jumped on the AI bandwagon and replaced our traditional search with “semantic search powered by vectors.” The demo looked amazing. Production was a disaster. Our Elasticsearch cluster was constantly under memory pressure, queries took 2+ seconds, and our AWS bill exploded. ...