Amazon OpenSearch Service
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Section titled “Concept”With Amazon OpenSearch Service you can search and analyze huge amounts of text and logs very fast. OpenSearch is an open-source search and analytics engine. On AWS it can run as a managed cluster called a domain, or as OpenSearch Serverless. It builds an index when data is added, so searching by word is fast. A tool called OpenSearch Dashboards comes with it for viewing results and making charts.
Simple example
Section titled “Simple example”The index of a huge library — give it any word and it tells you right away which page of which book it is on.
Why it’s needed
Section titled “Why it’s needed”Searching by word across hundreds of thousands of logs or products is slow in a regular database.
Where it’s used
Section titled “Where it’s used”Website search bars, log analysis, vector search for AI apps.
Azure equivalent
Section titled “Azure equivalent”Azure AI Search / Elastic on Azure
Learn more
Section titled “Learn more”For details and the latest information, see the official documentation: