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Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service

With Amazon OpenSearch Service, you can search for relevant content through precise keyword matching or natural language queries. Unified dashboards provide real-time data visualization as you analyze and monitor logs, traces, and metrics for various applications.

Core Benefits​

  • Managed Service: Simplifies deploying, managing, and scaling OpenSearch clusters.
  • Real-Time Analysis: Ingest, search, and analyze large volumes of log and event data with low latency.
  • Integrated Visualization: Includes OpenSearch Dashboards for creating interactive visualizations and monitoring dashboards.

Role in Data Pipeline​

Data Analysis & Visualization: Serves as a specialized analytics engine for operational data like logs and metrics. It is often the destination for streaming data via Firehose, enabling real-time monitoring and troubleshooting.

Use Cases​

  • Log Analytics: Centralizing and analyzing application and infrastructure logs to quickly identify and resolve operational issues.
  • Full-Text Search: Powering the search functionality for a website or e-commerce catalog.
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Amazon OpenSearch Service is a powerful solution for operational analytics and search, enabling real-time insights from machine-generated data.

Use case: Ideal for interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, and building sophisticated search experiences.

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