Relevant News - Amazon OpenSearch Service
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Here are the latest news items for Amazon OpenSearch Service.
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus as a sink, making it possible to build fully managed, end-to-end metrics ingestion pipelines without any custom forwarding infrastructure. With this launch, customers can now manage their entire metrics ingestion workflow using the same pipeline infrastructure they already use for logs and traces.
Customers can now choose the right destination for each observability signal — sending logs and traces to Amazon OpenSearch Service for powerful full-text search, log analytics, and trace correlation, while routing metrics to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus for time-series storage and analysis. This flexibility allows teams to build purpose-fit observability pipelines that leverage the strengths of each service without compromising on data fidelity or analytical capability. Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion's built-in data transformation and enrichment capabilities allow customers to prepare and refine metrics before they land in Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, improving data quality and consistency. Once metrics are in Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, customers can query them using Prometheus Query Language to analyze trends, configure alerting rules to get notified when metrics cross defined thresholds, and visualize their data using Amazon Managed Grafana for rich, customizable views of infrastructure and application health.
The feature is supported in all regions that Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion and is currently available. Customers can get started by using the new sink for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus in their pipeline configuration via the AWS Management console or using the AWS CLI and start ingesting metrics into their Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspace.
To learn more and get started, visit the Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion documentation.
Published: 2026-03-04 16:00:00+00:00
Amazon OpenSearch Service has enhanced Cluster Insights with two new insights — Cluster Overload and Suboptimal Sharding Strategy. Suboptimal Sharding Strategy provides instant visibility into shard imbalances that cause uneven workload distribution, while Cluster Overload surfaces elevated cluster resource utilization that can lead to request throttling or rejections. Both insights come with details of affected resources along with actionable mitigation recommendations.
Previously, identifying resource constraints and shard imbalances required manually correlating multiple metrics and logs, making it difficult to detect issues early. With these new insights, you can proactively monitor cluster health and take timely action.
Suboptimal Sharding Strategy detects shard imbalances caused by indices with too few shards relative to the number of data nodes, or by shards carrying disproportionately large amounts of data compared to others. It identifies the root cause of uneven workload distribution and provides recommendations to help you achieve optimal shard distribution for improved query performance and resource utilization. Similarly, Cluster Overload helps you identify elevated resource utilization, including CPU, memory, disk I/O, disk throughput, and disk utilization that can potentially lead to request throttling or rejections. It also provides scale-up recommendations so you can take timely action to protect your critical workloads.
These new insights are available at no additional cost for OpenSearch version 2.17 or later in all Regions where the OpenSearch UI is available. See the complete list of supported Regions here. To learn more, visit the Cluster Insights documentation or view the complete catalog of available insights.
Published: 2026-02-27 10:49:00+00:00
Amazon OpenSearch Service expands support for the latest generation Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instance families. These new instance types are compute optimized (c8g), general purpose (m8g), and memory optimized (r8g, r8gd) instances.
AWS Graviton4 processors provide up to 30% better performance than AWS Graviton3 processors with c8g, m8g and r8g & r8gd offering the best price performance for compute-intensive, general purpose, and memory-intensive workloads respectively. To learn more about Graviton4 improvements, please see the blog on r8g instances and the blog on c8g & m8g instances.
Amazon OpenSearch Service Graviton4 instances are supported for all OpenSearch versions, and Elasticsearch (open source) versions 7.9 and 7.10.
Apart from the regions already supported, one or more than one Graviton4 instance types are now also available in following region: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Zurich), Middle East (UAE), AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East).
For region specific availability & pricing, visit our pricing page. To learn more about Amazon OpenSearch Service and its capabilities, visit our product page.
Published: 2026-02-18 05:30:00+00:00
Link: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/amazon-opensearch-service-supports-i7i-instances
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports latest generation x86 based high performance Storage Optimized i7i instances. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, I7i instances deliver up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price performance over previous generation I4i instances.
I7i instances have 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs with up to 50% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I4i instances. Built on the AWS Nitro System, these instances offload CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software enhancing the performance and security for your workloads.
Amazon OpenSearch Service supports i7i instances in following AWS Regions US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Canada (Central), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Milan, Spain, Stockholm, Zurich ), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Malaysia, Melbourne, Mumbai, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Middle East (UAE), South America (São Paulo) & AWS GovCloud (US-West).
For region specific availability & pricing, visit our pricing page. To learn more about Amazon OpenSearch Service and its capabilities, visit our product page.
Published: 2026-02-18 04:30:00+00:00