AWS Big Data Blog
Author: Abe Raghib
Abe is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, where he helps ISV customers architect and implement scalable, secure solutions on AWS. He specializes in API architecture, serverless technologies, Agentic AI adoption, and developer experience optimization.
Amazon OpenSearch Service 101: T-shirt size your domain for e-commerce search
While general sizing guidelines for OpenSearch Service domains are covered in detail in OpenSearch Service documentation, in this post we specifically focus on T-shirt-sizing OpenSearch Service domains for e-commerce search workloads. T-shirt sizing simplifies complex capacity planning by categorizing workloads into sizes like XS, S, M, L, XL based on key workload parameters such as data volume and query concurrency.