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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.
Use Amazon S3 to Store a Single Amazon Elasticsearch Service Index
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. As detailed in our documentation, you can use the Elasticsearch API actions in Amazon Elasticsearch Service to take manual snapshots of your domain. You can easily back up your entire domain this way. However, did you know you can also […]
Send Apache Web Logs to Amazon Elasticsearch Service with Kinesis Firehose
February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. We have many customers who own and operate Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) stacks to load and […]
Get Started with Amazon Elasticsearch Service: How Many Shards Do I Need?
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Welcome to this introductory series on Elasticsearch and Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES). In this and future articles, we provide the basic information that you need to get started with Elasticsearch on AWS. How many shards? Elasticsearch can take in […]
Set Access Control for Amazon Elasticsearch Service
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Securing your Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) domain helps ensure your data cannot be accessed or altered by unauthorized users. Most customers want the security of IP address- or identity-based access policies, but choose open access out of convenience. Because […]
Get Started with Amazon Elasticsearch Service: How Many Data Instances Do I Need?
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts about Elasticsearch and Amazon Elasticsearch Service, where we will provide the information you need to get started with Elasticsearch on AWS. How many instances will you need? When you create […]