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Jon Handler

Author: Jon Handler

Jon Handler (@_searchgeek) is a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services based in Palo Alto, CA. Jon works closely with the CloudSearch and Elasticsearch teams, providing help and guidance to a broad range of customers who have search workloads that they want to move to the AWS Cloud. Prior to joining AWS, Jon's career as a software developer included four years of coding a large-scale, eCommerce search engine. Jon holds a Bachelor of the Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Science and a Ph. D. in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Northwestern University.

Monitor your Amazon ES domains with Amazon Elasticsearch Service Monitor

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service that you can use to deploy, secure, and run Elasticsearch cost-effectively at scale. The service provides support for open-source Elasticsearch APIs, managed Kibana, and integration with Logstash and other AWS services. Amazon […]

Best practices for configuring your Amazon OpenSearch Service domain

August 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy, secure, scale, and monitor your OpenSearch cluster in the AWS Cloud. Elasticsearch and OpenSearch are a distributed database solution, which can be difficult to plan for and execute. This post discusses […]

Set alerts in Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service provides an event alerting feature within OpenSearch Dashboards. To use this feature, you work with monitors (scheduled jobs) that have triggers (specific conditions) that you set, telling the monitor when it should send an alert. An alert is a notification that the triggering condition occurred. When a trigger fires, the monitor takes action, sending a message to your destination. This post uses a simulated IoT device farm to generate and send data to Amazon OpenSearch Service.

Get started with Amazon OpenSearch Service: T-shirt-size your domain

Welcome to this introductory series on Amazon OpenSearch Service. In this and future blog posts, we provide the basic information that you need to get started with Amazon OpenSearch Service. Introduction When you’re spinning up your first Amazon OpenSearch Service domain, you need to configure the instance types and count, decide whether to use dedicated […]