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Category: Amazon OpenSearch Service
Building Automation for Fraud Detection Using OpenSearch and Terraform
Customers can reduce the time it takes to detect and prevent fraud with this solution which allows financial analysts faster access to transactional data by automating data ingestion and replication.
Keeping clients of OpenSearch and Elasticsearch compatible with open source
The OpenSearch project is a long-term investment in a secure, high-quality, Apache-2.0 licensed search and analytics suite with a rich roadmap of innovative functionality. OpenSearch aims to provide wire compatibility with open source distributions of Elasticsearch 7.10.2, the software from which it was derived. This makes it easy for developers to migrate their applications to […]
Introducing OpenSearch
Today, we are introducing the OpenSearch project, a community-driven, open source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana. We are making a long-term investment in OpenSearch to ensure users continue to have a secure, high-quality, fully open source search and analytics suite with a rich roadmap of new and innovative functionality. This project includes OpenSearch (derived from […]
Using open source FHIR APIs with FHIR Works on AWS
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. Visit the website to learn more. In September 2019, we published a blog post, Building a Serverless FHIR Interface on AWS, which explained why customers might want to use FHIR (Fast Healthcare interoperability Resources) as a healthcare interface, and why serverless technology […]
Launching Open Distro for Elasticsearch security features on Amazon Elasticsearch Service
We are excited to announce that we are making new Open Distro for Elasticsearch security features available on Amazon Elasticsearch Service. Amazon Elasticsearch Service is frequently used for sensitive enterprise workloads, and today’s launch adds multiple capabilities to give you even tighter control over your data. New features include the ability to use roles to […]
What Amazon gets by giving back to Apache Lucene
At pretty much any scale, search is hard. It becomes dramatically harder, however, when searching at Amazon scale: think billions of products, complicated by millions of sellers constantly changing those products on a daily basis, with hundreds of millions of customers searching through that inventory at all hours. Although Amazon has powered its product […]
Demystifying Elasticsearch shard allocation
At the core of OpenSearch’s ability to provide a seamless scaling experience, lies its ability distribute its workload across machines. This is achieved via sharding. When you create an index you set a primary and replica shard count for that index. Elasticsearch distributes your data and requests across those shards, and the shards across your […]
Add your own SSL certificates to Open Distro for Elasticsearch
中文版 – Open Distro for Elasticsearch’s security plugin comes with authentication and access control out of the box. To make it easy to get started, the binary distributions contain passwords and SSL certificates that let you try out the plugin. Before adding any of your private data, you need to change the default passwords and certificates. […]
Build and Run the Open Distro For Elasticsearch SQL Plugin with Elasticsearch OSS
Note: These tutorial instructions are not current and will not be updated. OpenSearch was announced on April 12, 2021. Visit opensearch.org to learn more. Open Distro for Elasticsearch comprises four plugins: Security — supports node-to-node encryption, five types of authentication, role-based access controls, audit logging, and cross-cluster search. Alerting — notifies you when data from […]
Change your Admin Passwords in Open Distro for Elasticsearch
中文版 – Open Distro for Elasticsearch ships with an advanced security plugin. The plugin comes pre-configured with a number of different users and default passwords for them – of course, you will want to change those defaults! Passwords for some of the preconfigured users—kibanaro, logstash, readall, and snapshotrestore—are available to change in the Security UI in Kibana. […]