AWS Big Data Blog
Category: Amazon OpenSearch Service
Differentiate generative AI applications with your data using AWS analytics and managed databases
While the potential of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly under evaluation, organizations are at different stages in defining their generative AI vision. In many organizations, the focus is on large language models (LLMs), and foundation models (FMs) more broadly. This is just the tip of the iceberg, because what enables you to obtain differential […]
How ZS built a clinical knowledge repository for semantic search using Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Neptune
In this blog post, we will highlight how ZS Associates used multiple AWS services to build a highly scalable, highly performant, clinical document search platform. This platform is an advanced information retrieval system engineered to assist healthcare professionals and researchers in navigating vast repositories of medical documents, medical literature, research articles, clinical guidelines, protocol documents, […]
Integrate sparse and dense vectors to enhance knowledge retrieval in RAG using Amazon OpenSearch Service
In this post, instead of using the BM25 algorithm, we introduce sparse vector retrieval. This approach offers improved term expansion while maintaining interpretability. We walk through the steps of integrating sparse and dense vectors for knowledge retrieval using Amazon OpenSearch Service and run some experiments on some public datasets to show its advantages.
Reducing long-term logging expenses by 4,800% with Amazon OpenSearch Service
When you use Amazon OpenSearch Service for time-bound data like server logs, service logs, application logs, clickstreams, or event streams, storage cost is one of the primary drivers for the overall cost of your solution. Over the last year, OpenSearch Service has released features that have opened up new possibilities for storing your log data […]
Embed Amazon OpenSearch Service dashboards in your application
Customers across diverse industries rely on Amazon OpenSearch Service for interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, vector database, deriving meaningful insights from data, and visualizing these insights using OpenSearch Dashboards. Additionally, customers often seek out capabilities that enable effortless sharing of visual dashboards and seamless embedding of these dashboards within their applications, further […]
OpenSearch optimized instance (OR1) is game changing for indexing performance and cost
Amazon OpenSearch Service 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. In this post, we examine the OR1 instance type, an OpenSearch optimized instance introduced on November 29, 2023. OR1 is an instance type for Amazon OpenSearch Service that […]
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless cost-effective search capabilities, at any scale
We’re excited to announce the new lower entry cost for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. With support for half (0.5) OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs) for indexing and search workloads, the entry cost is cut in half. Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that you can use to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities […]
Deliver Amazon CloudWatch logs to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless
In this blog post, we will show how to use Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion to deliver CloudWatch logs to OpenSearch Serverless in near real-time. We outline a mechanism to connect a Lambda subscription filter with OpenSearch Ingestion and deliver logs to OpenSearch Serverless without explicitly needing a separate subscription filter for it.
Transition from Amazon CloudSearch to Amazon OpenSearch Service
After careful consideration, we have made the decision to close new customer access to Amazon CloudSearch, effective July 25, 2024. Amazon CloudSearch existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. AWS continues to invest in security, availability, and performance improvements for Amazon CloudSearch, but we do not plan to introduce new features. At […]
Configure SAML federation with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless and Keycloak
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless version of Amazon OpenSearch Service, a fully managed open search and analytics platform. On Amazon OpenSearch Service you can run petabyte-scale search and analytics workloads without the heavy lifting of managing the underlying OpenSearch Service clusters and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless supports workloads up to 30TB of data for time-series […]