Category: Amazon OpenSearch Service

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. When you use Amazon OpenSearch Service for log data, you’re drinking from what usually becomes a forceful firehose. As your OpenSearch and Kibana knowledge deepens, you find many compelling uses of your […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Today, Amazon OpenSearch Service announced support for deploying your domains across three Availability Zones (AZ). This feature is available in all AWS Regions that support at least three Availability Zones. With this new feature, you can spread out your master and data […]

May 2024: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Kibana has been renamed to OpenSearch Dashboards December 2022: This post was reviewed for accuracy. You can also refer to the documentation for more information. September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Open source OpenSearch has REST API operations […]

Today, Amazon OpenSearch Service announces support for publishing error logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.  This new feature provides you with the ability to capture error logs so you can access information about errors and warnings raised during the operation of the service. These details can be useful for troubleshooting. You can then use this information […]

Welcome to this introductory series on Amazon OpenSearch Service. In this and future blog posts, we provide the basic information that you need to get started with Amazon OpenSearch Service. Introduction When you’re spinning up your first Amazon OpenSearch Service domain, you need to configure the instance types and count, decide whether to use dedicated […]

A customer has been successfully creating and running multiple Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) domains to support their business users’ search needs across products, orders, support documentation, and a growing suite of similar needs. The service has become heavily used across the organization. This led to some domains running at 100% capacity during peak times, while others began to run low on storage space. Because of this increased usage, the technical teams were in danger of missing their service level agreements. They contacted me for help.

This post shows how you can set up automated alarms to warn when domains need attention.

Deriving insights from large datasets is central to nearly every industry, and life sciences is no exception. To combat the rising cost of bringing drugs to market, pharmaceutical companies are looking for ways to optimize their drug development processes. They are turning to big data analytics to better quantify the effect that their drug compounds […]

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. Nowadays, streaming data is seen and used everywhere—from social networks, to mobile and web applications, IoT devices, instrumentation in data centers, and many other sources. As the […]

NOTE: As of November 2018, you can run Apache Flink programs with Amazon Kinesis Analytics for Java Applications in a fully managed environment. You can find further details in a new blog post on the AWS Big Data Blog and in this Github repository. ————————– September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. You have come up with an exciting hypothesis, and now you are keen to find and analyze as much data as possible to prove (or refute) it. There are many datasets that might be applicable, but they have been created […]