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Category: Amazon OpenSearch Service

Find and link similar entities in a knowledge graph using Amazon Neptune, Part 1: Full-text search

A knowledge graph combines data from many sources and links related entities. Because a knowledge graph is a gathering place for connected data, we expect many of its entities to be similar. When we find that two entities are similar to each other, we can materialize that fact as a relationship between them. In this […]

Perform fuzzy full-text search and semantic search on Amazon DocumentDB using Amazon OpenSearch Service

In this post, we show you how to integrate Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) with Amazon OpenSearch Service using AWS Lambda integration and run full-text search, fuzzy search, and synonym search on an artificially generated reviews dataset. Amazon DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB API-compatible […]

The role of vector datastores in generative AI applications

Generative AI has captured our imagination and is transforming industries with its ability to answer questions, write stories, create art, and even generate code. AWS customers are increasingly asking us how they can best take advantage of generative AI in their own businesses. Most have accumulated a wealth of domain-specific data (financial records, health records, […]

How CSC Generation powers product discovery with knowledge graphs using Amazon Neptune

This post is co-written with Bobber Cheng and Ronit Rudra from CSC Generation. CSC Generation is a company that focuses on acquiring overlooked stores and catalog-based retailers and transforming them into high-performance, digital-first brands. As we grew through multiple acquisitions, it became apparent that our legacy product information system (PIM), backed by relational databases, was […]

Combine Amazon Neptune and Amazon OpenSearch Service for geospatial queries

Many AWS customers are looking to solve their business problems by storing and integrating data across a combination of purpose-built databases. The reason for that is purpose-built databases provide innovative ways to build data access patterns that would be challenging or inefficient to solve otherwise. For example, we can model highly connected geospatial data as […]

Building a data discovery solution with Amundsen and Amazon Neptune

This blog post was last reviewed or updated May, 2022. September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. In this post, we discuss the need for a metadata and data lineage tool and the problems it solves, how to rapidly deploy it in the language you prefer using […]

Run full text search queries on Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) data with Amazon OpenSearch Service

In this post, we show you how to integrate Amazon DocumentDB with Amazon ES so you can run full text search queries over your Amazon DocumentDB data. Specifically, we show you how to use an AWS Lambda function to stream events from your Amazon DocumentDB cluster’s change stream to an Amazon ES domain so you can run full text search queries on the data.

Reducing cost for small Amazon Elasticsearch Service domains

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. When you deploy your Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) domain to support a production workload, you must choose the type and number of data instances to use, the number of Availability Zones, and whether to use dedicated master instances or […]

Configuring and authoring Kibana dashboards

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Kibana is an open-source data visualization and exploration tool. It can be used for log and time-series analytics, application monitoring, and operational intelligence use cases. Kibana also offers powerful, easy-to-use features such as histograms, line graphs, pie charts, heat maps, […]

Analyze PostgreSQL logs with Amazon OpenSearch Service

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Amazon RDS supports publishing PostgreSQL logs to Amazon CloudWatch for versions 9.6.6 and above. Aurora PostgreSQL supports publishing logs to CloudWatch Logs for versions 9.6.12 and above, and versions 10.7 and above. By live streaming this data from CloudWatch to Amazon Elasticsearch […]