Amazon Elasticsearch Service vs. Forma, now part of Snapchat

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Score 7.2 out of 10
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Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a fully managed service that enables users to search, analyze, and visualize your log data at petabyte-scale. As a fully managed service, Amazon Elasticsearch Service manages the setup, deployment, configuration, patching, and monitoring of Elasticsearch clusters, so users can spend less time managing clusters and more time building applications. With a few clicks in the AWS console, users create scalable, secure, and available Elasticsearch clusters. Amazon…N/A
Forma, now part of Snapchat
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Forma was used to build photorealistic avatars, aiming to put the customer directly at the center of the shopping experience with a single photo, with the goal of grabbing their attention and helping them build confidence before buying. Forma was acquired and is now part of Snapchat.N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
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Amazon Elasticsearch ServiceForma, now part of Snapchat
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Amazon Elasticsearch ServiceForma, now part of Snapchat
User Ratings
Amazon Elasticsearch ServiceForma, now part of Snapchat
Likelihood to Recommend
6.0
(5 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Elasticsearch ServiceForma, now part of Snapchat
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
Elasticsearch is a good alternative to relational databases for setting up complex searching of data. It's inbuilt features for slicing the data [in] different ways and its ability to add weights to search results makes it easy to set up complex searching scenarios. Given that data must be pushed to this service, it may be best suited for data that is not changing very rapidly.
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Snap, Inc. (Snapchat for Business)
Very good for smaller stores, very easy to start and expand. Swimwear is a good use case, people want to know what they look like in swimwear. Also it works best on phones so it's good if customers shop on mobile. Not good if you are not on Shopify, it won't work. Also maybe not good for very high-end luxury brands, users who upload photos use their camera phones and not beautiful like models.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Search
  • Query language
  • light-weight
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Snap, Inc. (Snapchat for Business)
  • Keep customers on my site for longer
  • Easy to try and expand, they use my existing product photos
  • Free unless you want a special design
  • Good support
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • It is not so simple to learn.
  • Documentation is often very confusing.
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Snap, Inc. (Snapchat for Business)
  • Takes a couple days to add products. Would be better if it were instant.
  • Only on Shopify. I told a friend who sells on Woo Commerce and it wouldn't work.
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Usability
Amazon AWS
It is an extremely powerful tool if the time is put in to learn it. There are basic skeletons of out of the box behavior, it involves having really dedicated people to learn how to use it to take full advantage of its capabilities. A 10 for the tool itself, minus 3 for the difficulty in learning and maintenance
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Snap, Inc. (Snapchat for Business)
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
Splunk is the most flexible of the 3 where you can manipulate the data to whatever fits your specific use case. Grafana has the most powerful capabilities but the steepest learning curve. Grafana also does offer the most flexibility as you can visualize almost any data source. Elastic is a solid middle ground between the 2
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Snap, Inc. (Snapchat for Business)
We heard of 3D Look but needs 3D cameras, too expensive so didn't really try. True Fit is what many bigger companies use but it's expensive and doesn't work well
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • The cost is a bit expensive if compared with other clouds but [the] performance is very good.
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Snap, Inc. (Snapchat for Business)
  • Very big impact on session time
  • Helps with getting store visitors. But I use the virtual fitting room in marketing
  • Any new business is good since it's free
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ScreenShots

Forma, now part of Snapchat Screenshots

Screenshot of Forma-enabled product pageScreenshot of Customer can choose from a diverse set of models, or upload their own photo - without leaving merchant's websiteScreenshot of Forma's admin dashboard to add tryon-enabled prodcuts, or to turn on or off any individual productScreenshot of Free and 1min to onboard! 5-star reviews on Shopify