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Category: Amazon OpenSearch Service

Serverless logging with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless and Amazon Kinesis Data 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. In this post, you will learn how you can use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to build a log ingestion pipeline to send VPC flow logs to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. First, you create […]

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now generally available!

We ended 2022 on a high note with the preview release of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless at re:Invent. Today, we are happy to announce the general availability of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, the serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it easier to run search and analytics workloads without even having to think about infrastructure management. […]

How NETSCOUT built a global DDoS awareness platform with Amazon OpenSearch Service

How NETSCOUT built a global DDoS awareness platform with Amazon OpenSearch Service

This post was co-written with Hardik Modi, AVP, Threat and Migitation Products at NETSCOUT. NETSCOUT Omnis Threat Horizon is a global cybersecurity awareness platform providing users with highly contextualized visibility into “over the horizon” threat activity on the global DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) landscape—threats that could be impacting their industry, their customers, or their […]

Build a search application with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless

In this post, we demonstrate how to build a simple web-based search application using the recently announced Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, a serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it easy to run petabyte-scale search and analytics workloads without having to think about clusters. The benefit of using OpenSearch Serverless as a backend for your […]

Impact of infrastructure failures on shards in Amazon OpenSearch Service

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 AWS Cloud. Amazon OpenSearch Service provisions all the resources for your cluster, launches it, and automatically detects and replaces failed nodes, reducing the overhead of self-managed infrastructures. The service makes […]

Stream VPC flow logs to Amazon OpenSearch Service via Amazon Kinesis Data 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. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs enable you to track the IP traffic going to and from the network interfaces in your VPC for your workloads. Analyzing VPC logs helps […]

Simplify private network access for solutions using Amazon OpenSearch Service managed VPC endpoints

Amazon OpenSearch Service makes it easy for you to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more. Amazon OpenSearch is an open source, distributed search and analytics suite. Amazon OpenSearch Service offers the latest versions of OpenSearch, support for 19 versions of Elasticsearch (1.5 to 7.10 versions), as well as visualization capabilities […]

Log analytics the easy way with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless

We recently announced the preview release of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, a new serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch Service, which makes it easy for you to run large-scale search and analytics workloads without having to configure, manage, or scale OpenSearch clusters. It automatically provisions and scales the underlying resources to deliver fast data ingestion and query […]

Lower your Amazon OpenSearch Service storage cost with gp3 Amazon EBS volumes

Amazon OpenSearch Service makes it easy for you to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more. OpenSearch is an open-source, distributed search and analytics suite comprising OpenSearch, a distributed search and analytics engine, and OpenSearch Dashboards, a UI and visualization tool. When you use Amazon OpenSearch Service, you configure a set […]

Field-level security in Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service is fully open-source search and analytics engine that securely unlocks real-time search, monitoring, and analysis of business and operational data for use cases like application monitoring, log analytics, observability, and website search. But what if you have personal identifiable information (PII) data in your log data? How do you control and audit […]