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Category: Amazon OpenSearch Service

How Plugsurfing doubled performance and reduced cost by 70% with purpose-built databases and AWS Graviton

Plugsurfing aligns the entire car charging ecosystem—drivers, charging point operators, and carmakers—within a single platform. The over 1 million drivers connected to the Plugsurfing Power Platform benefit from a network of over 300,000 charging points across Europe. Plugsurfing serves charging point operators with a backend cloud software for managing everything from country-specific regulations to providing […]

Custom packages and hot reload of dictionary files with Amazon OpenSearch Service

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 […]

Understanding the JVMMemoryPressure metric changes in Amazon OpenSearch Service

This blog post was last reviewed and updated September 2022 with OldGenJVMMemoryPressure, MasterOldGenJVMMemoryPressure and WarmOldGenJVMMemoryPressure metrics to trace usage of old gen.  Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to secure, deploy, and operate OpenSearch and legacy Elasticsearch clusters at scale. In the latest service software release of Amazon OpenSearch Service, […]

Improved performance with AWS Graviton2 instances on Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service at AWS for OpenSearch. It’s an open-source search and analytics suite used for a broad set of use cases, like real-time application monitoring, log analytics, and website search. While running an OpenSearch Service domain, you can choose from a variety of instances for your primary nodes and […]

Enhance resiliency with admission control in Amazon OpenSearch Service

OpenSearch is a distributed, open-source search and analytics suite used for a broad set of use cases like real-time application monitoring, log analytics, and website search. Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to secure, deploy, and operate OpenSearch clusters at scale. Amazon OpenSearch Service provides a broad range of cluster […]

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Detect anomalies on one million unique entities with Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service supports a highly performant, integrated anomaly detection engine that enables the real-time identification of anomalies in streaming data. Last year, we released high-cardinality anomaly detection (HCAD) to detect individual entities’ anomalies. With the 1.1 release, we have allowed you to monitor a million entities with steady, predictable performance. HCAD is easiest when […]

Automating Index State Management for Amazon OpenSearch Service

When it comes to time-series data, it’s more common to access new data than existing data, such as the last four hours or one day. Often, application teams must maintain multiple indexes for diverse data workloads, which bring new requirements to set up a custom solution to manage the index lifecycles. This becomes tedious as […]

Unify log aggregation and analytics across compute platforms

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Our customers want to make sure their users have the best experience running their application on AWS. To make this happen, you need to monitor and fix software problems as quickly as […]

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 […]

View summarized data with Amazon OpenSearch Service Index Transforms

Amazon OpenSearch Service recently announced support for Index Transforms. You can use Index Transforms to extract meaningful information from an existing index, and store the aggregated information in a new index. The key benefit of Index Transforms is faster retrieval of data by performing aggregations, grouping in advance, and storing those results in summarized views. For […]