Amazon Elasticsearch Services offers assistance for Elasticsearch versions 6.8 and 7.1

Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) is a service which makes it simple to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch clusters in the AWS Cloud. Elasticsearch is a well-known open-source search and analytics engine for use cases like log analytics, real-time application monitoring, and clickstream analysis. You can directly access the Elasticsearch APIs; current code and applications work smoothly with the service using Amazon ES. Amazon ES provisions every resources for your Elasticsearch cluster and initiates it. Further, it automatically finds and replaces failed Elasticsearch nodes, lessening the overhead related with self-managed infrastructures. Now Amazon Elasticsearch Service assists open source Elasticsearch versions 6.8 and 7.1 and their corresponding Kibana versions. Elasticsearch 6.8 is the last small 6.x release and is the advance way for 7.x. Elasticsearch 7.1 is a prime release. To give efficient and performant query processing, Elasticsearch 7.1 adds adaptive replica selection by default which automatically routes requests depends on load and performance of the available shards. Now you can design new domains functioning Elasticsearch 6.8 or 7.1 and further simply upgrades current 5.x and 6.x domains with no downtime with the help of in-place version upgrades. These new versions Amazon ES and Kibana on Amazon ES are accessible over 21 regions globally, refer AWS Region Table to get the Amazon Elasticsearch Service availability.