Amazon OpenSearch Service (formerly Amazon ElasticSearch)

2026-01-03T18:10:52+00:00

Amazon OpenSearch Service Cheat Sheet Amazon OpenSearch lets you search, analyze, and visualize your data in real-time. This service manages the capacity, scaling, patching, and administration of your Elasticsearch clusters for you, while still giving you direct access to the Elasticsearch APIs. Amazon OpenSearch Service is based on the open-source OpenSearch project and provides compatibility with legacy Elasticsearch APIs while focusing on OpenSearch-native features and tooling. Amazon OpenSearch Concepts An Amazon OpenSearch domain is synonymous with an Elasticsearch cluster. Domains are clusters with the settings, instance types, instance counts, and storage resources that you specify. You can create multiple Elasticsearch [...]