AWS Big Data Blog
Enhance search with vector embeddings and Amazon OpenSearch Service
This post describes how organizations can enhance their existing search capabilities with vector embeddings using Amazon OpenSearch Service. We discuss why traditional keyword search falls short of modern user expectations, how vector search enables more intelligent and contextual results, and the measurable business impact achieved by organizations like Amazon Prime Video, Juicebox, and Amazon Music.
An automated approach to perform an in-place engine upgrade in Amazon OpenSearch Service
Software upgrades bring new features and better performance, and keep you current with the software provider. However, upgrades for software services can be difficult to complete successfully, especially when you can’t tolerate downtime and when the new version’s APIs introduce breaking changes and deprecation that you must remediate. This post shows you how to upgrade […]
Unleash the power of Snapshot Management to take automated snapshots using Amazon OpenSearch Service
Snapshot Management helps you create point-in-time backups of your domain using OpenSearch Dashboards, including both data and configuration settings (for visualizations and dashboards). You can use these snapshots to restore your cluster to a specific state, recover from potential failures, and even clone environments for testing or development purposes. In this post, we share how to use Snapshot Management to take automated snapshots using OpenSearch Service.
Achieve higher query throughput: Auto scaling in Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports shard replica scaling
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is the serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple for you to run search and analytics workloads without having to think about infrastructure management. We recently announced new enhancements to autoscaling in OpenSearch Serverless that scales capacity automatically in response to your query loads. At launch, OpenSearch Serverless supported […]
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless expands support for larger workloads and collections
We recently announced new enhancements to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless that can scan and search source data sizes of up to 6 TB. At launch, OpenSearch Serverless supported searching one or more indexes within a collection, with the total combined size of up to 1 TB. With the support for 6 TB source data, you can now scale up your log analytics, machine learning applications, and ecommerce data more effectively. With OpenSearch Serverless, you can enjoy the benefits of these expanded limits without having to worry about sizing, monitoring your usage, or manually scaling an OpenSearch domain.
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports 99.99% availability using Multi-AZ with Standby
Customers use Amazon OpenSearch Service for mission-critical applications and monitoring. But what happens when OpenSearch Service itself is unavailable? If your ecommerce search is down, for example, you’re losing revenue. If you’re monitoring your application with OpenSearch Service, and it becomes unavailable, your ability to detect, diagnose, and repair issues with your application is diminished. […]
Migrate your indexes to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless with Logstash
We recently announced the general availability of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless , a new option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it easy run large-scale search and analytics workloads without having to configure, manage, or scale OpenSearch clusters. With OpenSearch Serverless, you get the same interactive millisecond response times as OpenSearch Service with the simplicity of […]
Log analytics the easy way with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless
We recently announced the preview release of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, a new serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch Service, which makes it easy for you to run large-scale search and analytics workloads without having to configure, manage, or scale OpenSearch clusters. It automatically provisions and scales the underlying resources to deliver fast data ingestion and query […]
Ensure availability of your data using cross-cluster replication with Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service that you can use to deploy and operate OpenSearch and legacy Elasticsearch clusters, cost-effectively, at scale in the AWS Cloud. The service makes it easy for you to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more by offering the latest versions of OpenSearch, support […]
Set advanced settings with the Amazon OpenSearch Service Dashboards API
Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service that you can use to deploy and operate OpenSearch clusters cost-effectively at scale in the AWS Cloud. The service makes it easy for you to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more by offering the latest versions of OpenSearch, support for 19 versions […]









