Document history for Amazon OpenSearch Service
This topic describes important changes to Amazon OpenSearch Service. Service software updates add support for new features, security patches, bug fixes, and other improvements. To use new features, you might need to update the service software on your domain. For more information, see Service software updates in Amazon OpenSearch Service.
Service features are rolled out incrementally to the AWS Regions where a service is
available. We update this documentation for the first release only. We don't provide
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Relevant dates to this history:
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Current product version—2021-01-01
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Latest product release—July 12, 2024
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Latest documentation update—July 12, 2024
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Patch releases: Service software versions that end in "-P" and a number, such as R20211203-P4, are patch releases. Patches are likely to include performance improvements, minor bug fixes, and security fixes or posture improvements. Since patches do not include new features or breaking changes, they generally do not have direct user or documentation impact, which is why the specifics of each patch are not included in this document history.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.17. This version includes all features that
were part of versions 2.12 and 2.13. For more information, see the 2.17 | November 13, 2024 | |
Updated AmazonOpenSearchServiceRolePolicyData | Added AWS/OpenSearch as a new namespace type to the | October 30, 2024 |
Added CloudWatch namespaces | Added AWS/OpenSearch as a new namespace type to the
| October 30, 2024 |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.15. This version includes all features that
were part of versions 2.12 and 2.13. For more information, see the 2.12 | October 11, 2024 | |
Adds the Sid | July 12, 2024 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds a service-linked role called
| June 12, 2024 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service zero-ETL integration with Amazon S3 | Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports direct queries to query data in Amazon S3. | May 22, 2024 |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.13. This version includes all features that
were part of versions 2.12 and 2.13. For more information, see the 2.12 | May 21, 2024 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion support for Data Prepper version 2.7 | Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion adds support for Data Prepper version 2.7. For more information, see
the 2.7 release notes | April 4, 2024 |
AWS service private access for OpenSearch Serverless collections | You can now grant specific AWS services, such as Amazon Bedrock, access to your OpenSearch Serverless collections within a network access policy. | March 28, 2024 |
You can now make some EBS changes to your domains without a blue/green deployment in Amazon OpenSearch Service. | February 14, 2024 | |
You can now track domain configuration changes in the Amazon OpenSearch Service console and using the configuration API. | February 6, 2024 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless vector search collections are now generally available. The following notable improvements were made during the preview phase:
| November 29, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OR1 instance types. | November 29, 2023 | |
Direct queries provide a fully managed solution for making transactional data available in Amazon OpenSearch Service within seconds of it being written to an Amazon S3 bucket. | November 29, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless adds support for up to 10 TiB of index data for time series collections. This release also supports a maximum allowed capacity of 200 OCUs for all types of collections and the ability to disable standby replicas when you create a collection. | November 29, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.11. This version includes all features that
were part of versions 2.10 and 2.11. For more information, see the 2.10 | November 17, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion support for Data Prepper version 2.6 | Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion adds support for Data Prepper version 2.6. For more information, see
the 2.6 release notes | November 17, 2023 |
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion support for Data Prepper version 2.5 | Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion adds support for Data Prepper version 2.5. For more information, see
the 2.5 release notes | November 17, 2023 |
To ease the setup of remote inference for semantic search, Amazon OpenSearch Service provides an AWS CloudFormation template in the console that automates the model provisioning process for you. | November 7, 2023 | |
Adds the permissions necessary for the service-linked
role policy | October 26, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless introduces index lifecycle policies to streamline the management of data retention and deletion. You can now use APIs or a configuration interface in the console to set data retention polices for time series collections, eliminating the need for creating daily indexes or scripts to delete old data. | October 25, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Im4gn instance types. Im4gn instances are optimized for workloads that manage large datasets and need high storage density per vCPU. | October 20, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers several administrative options that provide granular control if you need to troubleshoot issues with your domain. These options include the ability to restart the OpenSearch process on a data node and the ability to restart a data node. | October 17, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for four new language analyzer plugins: Nori (Korean), Sudachi (Japanese), Pinyin (Chinese), and STConvert Analysis (Chinese), as well as the Amazon Personalize Search Ranking plugin. | October 16, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.9. This version includes all features that
were part of versions 2.8 and 2.9. For more information, see the 2.8 | October 2, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for machine learning (ML) connectors. Connectors facilitate access to ML models hosted on other AWS services, or on third-party machine learning (ML) platforms. | September 6, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion adds support for Data Prepper version 2.4 | Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion adds support for Data Prepper version 2.4. For more information, see
the 2.4 release notes | August 31, 2023 |
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless adds support for up to 6 TiB of index data for time series collections. This release also supports a maximum allowed capacity of 100 OCUs for both search and time series collections. | August 15, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless adds the option to create a vector search collection, which you can use to store vector embeddings to power similiarity and semantic searches. | July 26, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.7. This version includes all
features that were part of versions 2.6 and 2.7. For more information, see the
2.6 | July 10, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion adds support Data Prepper version 2.3. For more information, see the
2.3 release notes | June 26, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds the option to deploy a domain across three Availability Zones (AZs), with each AZ containing a complete copy of data and with nodes in one of these AZs acting as a standby. The Multi-AZ with Standby deployment option provides 99.99% availability and consistent performance in the event of an infrastructure failure. | May 3, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds a service-linked role called
| April 26, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is a fully managed data collector that delivers real-time log and trace data to OpenSearch Service domains and OpenSearch Serverless collections. OpenSearch Ingestion eliminates the need for you to use third-party solutions like Logstash or Jaeger to ingest data into your domains and collections. | April 26, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.5. This version includes all
features that were part of versions 2.4 and 2.5. For more information, see the
2.4 | March 13, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds off-peak windows, which are daily 10-hour, low-traffic time blocks during which it can schedule service software updates and Auto-Tune optimizations that require a blue/green deployment. Off-peak updates help to minimize strain on a cluster's dedicated master nodes during higher traffic periods. For new domains created after February 16, the off-peak window is automatically configured for between 10:00 P.M. and 8:00 A.M. local time. For existing domains, you need to explicitly enable the window. | February 16, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports configuring SAML authentication during domain creation. Previously, you had to configure SAML options after the domain was already created. | February 1, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds the option for a VPC endpoint connection between two domains. You can now use remote reindex to copy indexes from one VPC domain to another without a reverse proxy. Your VPC domains must be running service software R20221114 or later to use this feature. | January 31, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now generally available. The following notable improvements were made during the preview phase:
| January 25, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports async dry run, which allows you to perform a validation check prior to making a configuration change, and notifies you if your changes will cause a blue/green deployment. | January 19, 2023 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds a service-linked role called | November 29, 2022 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is an on-demand, auto scaling, serverless configuration for Amazon OpenSearch Service. Serverless removes the operational complexities of provisioning, configuring, and tuning your OpenSearch clusters. | November 29, 2022 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.3. This version includes all
features that were part versions 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2. For more information, see
the 2.0 | November 15, 2022 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports the Notifications plugin, which offers a central location for all of your notifications from OpenSearch plugins. Starting with version 2.0, alerting destinations were deprecated and replaced with notification channels. | November 15, 2022 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service domains running Elasticsearch 7.1 now support the latest patch release for Kibana 7.1.1, which adds bug fixes and improves security. When you update your 7.1 domains to service software R20221114, OpenSearch Service will automatically upgrade them to this patch release. | November 15, 2022 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service domains running Elasticsearch 6.8 now support the latest patch release for Kibana 6.8.13, which adds bug fixes and improves security. When you update your 6.8 domains to service software R20221114, OpenSearch Service will automatically upgrade them to this patch release. | November 15, 2022 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service domains running Elasticsearch 6.3 now support the latest patch release for Kibana 6.3.2, which adds bug fixes and improves security. When you update your 6.3 domains to service software R20221114, OpenSearch Service will automatically upgrade them to this patch release. | November 15, 2022 | |
With Amazon OpenSearch Service-managed VPC endpoints, you can connect directly to OpenSearch Service VPC domains by using an interface VPC endpoint instead of connecting over the internet. An OpenSearch Service-managed VPC endpoint is accessible only within the VPC where the endpoint is provisioned, or from any VPCs peered with the VPC where the endpoint is provisioned, as permitted by the route tables and security groups. Your VPC domain must be running service software R20220928 or later to connect to an interface VPC endpoint. | November 7, 2022 | |
Bug fixes and performance improvements | Service software R20220928 includes bug fixes and performance enhancements,
including improved SAML logging. The update also changes the default tenant to
| October 3, 2022 |
Amazon OpenSearch Service offers an improved, all-encompassing configuration API reference. The new references contains all available actions and data types, sample request and response syntax, and links to the corresponding SDK references for all supported languages. | September 13, 2022 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now performs a validation check prior to blue/green deployments, and surfaces validation errors if your domain is not eligible for an update. | August 16, 2022 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 1.3. For more information, see the
1.3 release notes | July 27, 2022 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for the ML Commons plugin, which provides a set of
common machine learning algorithms through transport and REST API
calls | July 27, 2022 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for the | July 26, 2022 | |
The Amazon OpenSearch Service documentation provides improved operational best practices and general recommendations for creating and operating OpenSearch Service domains. | July 6, 2022 | |
You can now view quotas for Amazon OpenSearch Service, and request quota increases, from the Service Quotas console. | June 29, 2022 | |
You can now use tags to control access to the OpenSearch APIs. Previously, you could only use tags to control access to the configuration API. | June 16, 2022 | |
Cross-cluster search across Regions | Cross-cluster search is now supported across AWS Regions as long as both domains are running Elasticsearch version 7.10 or later, or any version of OpenSearch. | June 14, 2022 |
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for single Kibana 5.6.16. With single Kibana 5.6.16, you can use Kibana 5.6 as your front end while connecting to Elasticsearch versions 5.1, 5.3, 5.5, and 5.6. You must be on service software R20220323 or later to use single Kibana 5.6. | April 4, 2022 | |
R20220323-P1 | Amazon OpenSearch Service recently released service software update R20220323, but the update was subsequently rolled back because of an issue. We recommend that you update your domains to patch release R20220323-P1 or later, which fixes the issue. | April 4, 2022 |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 1.2. For more information, see the
1.2 release notes | April 4, 2022 | |
The default installation of OpenSearch Dashboards for Amazon OpenSearch Service includes the Observability plugin, which you can use to visualize data-driven events using Piped Processing Language (PPL) to explore and query your data. The plugin requires OpenSearch 1.2 or later and service software R20220323 or later. | April 4, 2022 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service domains running Elasticsearch 7.7 now support the latest patch release for Kibana 7.7, which adds bug fixes and improves security. When you update your 7.7 domains to service software R20220323 or later, OpenSearch Service will automatically upgrade them to this patch release. | April 4, 2022 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service changed the logic for the | April 4, 2022 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports using custom dictionaries with the IK (Chinese) Analysis plugin. | April 4, 2022 | |
Cross-cluster replication on existing domains | Amazon OpenSearch Service removed the limitation that you can only implement cross-cluster search and cross-cluster replication on domains created on or after June 3rd, 2020. You can now enable these features on all domains regardless of when they were created. Both domains must be on service software R20220323 or later. | April 4, 2022 |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers more visibility into the progress of blue/green deployments. You can monitor these details in the console or using the configuration API. | January 27, 2022 | |
You can now enable fine-grained access control on existing domains. You can enable a temporary migration period for open/IP-based access policies to ensure that users can continue to access your domain while you create and map roles. Enabling fine-grained access control on existing domains requires service software R20211203 or later. | January 6, 2022 | |
With service software R20211203, the | January 4, 2022 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 1.1. For more information, see the
1.1 release notes | January 4, 2022 | |
The default installation of OpenSearch Dashboards for Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports the visual editor for ISM policies. This feature requires OpenSearch 1.1 or later. | January 4, 2022 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service supports using the | January 4, 2022 | |
Log4j patch | Service software R20211203-P2 updates the version of Log4j used in OpenSearch Service as
recommended by the advisories in CVE-2021-44228 | December 15, 2021 |
Cross-cluster replication lets you replicate indices, mappings, and metadata from one OpenSearch Service domain to another. Cross-cluster replication requires a domain running Elasticsearch 7.10 or OpenSearch 1.1 or later. | October 5, 2021 | |
The launch of Amazon OpenSearch Service includes new AWS-managed policies and the deprecation of old policies. | September 8, 2021 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service domains running legacy Elasticsearch version 6.4 now support the latest patch release for Kibana 6.4, which adds bug fixes and improves security. OpenSearch Service will automatically upgrade domains to this patch release. | September 8, 2021 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for data streams, which simplify the process of managing time-series data. Your domain must be running OpenSearch 1.0 or later to use data streams. | September 8, 2021 | |
AWS renames Amazon OpenSearch Service to remove the legacy "Elasticsearch" branding. Amazon OpenSearch Service supports OpenSearch and legacy Elasticsearch OSS. When you create a cluster, you have the option of which search engine to use. OpenSearch Service offers broad compatibility with Elasticsearch OSS 7.10, the final open source version of the software. | September 8, 2021 | |
Cold storage is a new storage tier for infrequently accessed or historical data. Cold indices only occupy S3 storage and have no compute attached to them. Cold storage requires a domain running Elasticsearch 7.9 or later and service software R20210426 or later. | May 13, 2021 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports ARM-based Graviton instance types (M6G, C6G, R6G, and R6GD). Graviton instance types are available on new and existing domains running Elasticsearch 7.9 or later and service software R20210331 or later. | May 4, 2021 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for ISM templates, which let you automatically attach an
ISM policy to an index if the index matches a pattern defined in the policy. ISM
templates require service software R20210426 or later. This update also
deprecates the | April 27, 2021 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Elasticsearch version 7.10. For more information, see
7.10 release notes | April 21, 2021 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports asynchronous search, which lets you run search requests in the background. Asynchronous search requires a domain running Elasticsearch 7.10 or later and service software R20210331 or later. | April 21, 2021 | |
You can now use AWS tags to control access to the Amazon ES configuration API. | March 2, 2021 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds Auto-Tune, which uses performance and usage metrics from your cluster to suggest changes to the JVM settings on your nodes. Auto-Tune requires a domain running Elasticsearch 6.7 or later and service software R20201117 or later. | February 24, 2021 | |
The default installation of Kibana for Amazon OpenSearch Service now includes the trace analytics plugin, which lets you monitor trace data from your distributed applications. The plugin requires a domain running Elasticsearch 7.9 or later and service software R20210201 or later. | February 17, 2021 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds the following CloudWatch metrics for tracking shard status:
| February 17, 2021 | |
The default installation of Kibana for Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports on-demand reports for the Discover, Visualize, and Dashboard pages. This feature requires Elasticsearch 7.9 or later and service software R20210201 or later. | February 17, 2021 | |
Kibana 5.6.16 support | Amazon OpenSearch Service domains running Elasticsearch 5.6 now support the latest patch release for Kibana 5.6, which adds bug fixes and improves security. Amazon ES will automatically upgrade domains to this patch release. | February 17, 2021 |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports enabling encryption of data at rest and node-to-node encryption on existing domains running Elasticsearch 6.7 or later. After you enable these settings, you can't disable them. | January 27, 2021 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports remote reindex, which lets you migrate indices from remote domains. This feature requires service software R20201117 or later. | November 24, 2020 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Piped Processing Language (PPL), a query language that lets you use pipe (|) syntax to query data stored in Elasticsearch. This feature requires service software R20201117 or later. To learn more, see . | November 24, 2020 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for Kibana notebooks, which lets you combine live visualizations and narrative text in a single interface. This feature requires service software R20201117 or later. | November 24, 2020 | |
The default installation of Kibana for Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports a new visualization type, Gantt charts. This feature requires service software R20201117 or later. | November 24, 2020 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Elasticsearch version 7.9. For more information, see
7.9 release notes | November 24, 2020 | |
Anomaly detection for Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for high cardinality, which lets you categorize anomalies with a dimension like IP address, product ID, country code, and so on. This feature requires service software R20201117 or later. | November 24, 2020 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now lets you update your search analyzers without reindexing. You can update the dictionary files on some or all of your domains, and Amazon ES tracks package versions over time so that you have a history of what changed and when. This feature requires service software R20201019 or later. | November 17, 2020 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports custom endpoints, which let you give your Amazon ES domain a new URL. If you ever swap domains, you can maintain the same URL. This feature requires service software R20201019 or later. | November 5, 2020 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports IK (Chinese) Analysis, Vietnamese Analysis, and Thai Analysis plugins on domains running Elasticsearch 7.7 or later with service software R20201019 or later. | October 28, 2020 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Elasticsearch version 7.8. For more information, see
7.8 release notes | October 28, 2020 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports SAML authentication for Kibana, which lets you use third-party identity providers to log in to Kibana, manage fine-grained access control, search your data, and build visualizations. This feature requires service software R20201019 or later. | October 27, 2020 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports the | September 23, 2020 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports audit logs for your data, which lets you track failed login attempts, user access to indices, documents, and fields, and much more. This feature requires service software R20200910 or later. | September 16, 2020 | |
UltraWarm for Amazon OpenSearch Service adds new metrics, new settings, a larger migration queue, and a cancellation API. These updates require service software R20200910 or later. For more information, see . | September 14, 2020 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports the open source Learning to Rank plugin, which lets you use machine learning technologies to improve search relevance. This feature requires service software R20200721 or later. | July 27, 2020 | |
k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) now lets you search for "nearest neighbors" by cosine similarity in addition to Euclidean distance. This feature requires service software R20200721 or later. | July 23, 2020 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports gzip compression for most HTTP requests and responses, which can reduce latency and conserve bandwidth. This feature requires service software R20200721 or later. | July 23, 2020 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Elasticsearch version 7.7. For more information, see
7.7 release notes | July 23, 2020 | |
The default installation of Kibana for Amazon OpenSearch Service now includes a WMS map server, except for domains in the India and China Regions. | June 18, 2020 | |
SQL support for Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports many new operations, a dedicated Kibana user interface for data exploration, and an interactive CLI. For more information, see . | June 3, 2020 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service lets you perform cross-cluster queries and aggregations across multiple connected domains. | June 3, 2020 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service lets you automatically detect anomalies in near-real time. | June 3, 2020 | |
UltraWarm storage for Amazon OpenSearch Service has left public preview and is now generally available. The feature now supports a wider range of versions and AWS Regions. For more information, see . | May 5, 2020 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service lets you upload custom dictionary files for use with your cluster. These files improve your search results by telling Elasticsearch to ignore certain high-frequency words or to treat terms as equivalent. | April 21, 2020 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Elasticsearch version 7.4. For more information, see Supported versions. | March 12, 2020 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) search. k-NN requires service software R20200302 or later. | March 3, 2020 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds Index State Management (ISM), which lets you automate routine tasks, such as deleting indices when they reach a certain age. This feature requires service software R20200302 or later. | March 3, 2020 | |
Elasticsearch 5.6.16 support | Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports the latest patch release for version 5.6, which adds bug fixes and improves security. Amazon ES will automatically upgrade existing 5.6 domains to this release. Note that this Elasticsearch release incorrectly reports its version as 5.6.17. | March 2, 2020 |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports fine-grained access control, which offers security at the index, document, and field level, Kibana multi-tenancy, and optional HTTP basic authentication for your cluster. | February 11, 2020 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds UltraWarm, a new warm storage tier that uses Amazon S3 and a sophisticated caching solution to improve performance. For indices that you are not actively writing to and query less frequently, UltraWarm storage offers significantly lower costs per GiB. | December 3, 2019 | |
Encryption features for China Regions | Encryption of data at rest and node-to-node encryption are now available in
the | November 20, 2019 |
Require HTTPS | You can now require that all traffic to your Amazon ES domains arrive over HTTPS. When configuring your domain, check the Require HTTPS box. This feature requires service software R20190808 or later. | October 3, 2019 |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Elasticsearch version 7.1 and 6.8. For more information, see Supported versions. | August 13, 2019 | |
Rather than daily snapshots, Amazon OpenSearch Service now takes hourly snapshots of domains running Elasticsearch 5.3 and later so that you have more frequent backups from which to restore your data. | July 8, 2019 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Elasticsearch version 6.7. For more information, see Supported versions. | May 29, 2019 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now lets you query your data using SQL. SQL support requires service software R20190418 or later. | May 15, 2019 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports M5, C5, and R5 instance types. Compared to previous-generation instance types, these new types offer better performance at lower prices. For more information, see Limits. | April 24, 2019 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Elasticsearch version 6.5. | April 8, 2019 | |
Alerting for Amazon OpenSearch Service notifies you when data from one or more Amazon ES indices meets certain conditions. Alerting requires service software R20190221 or later. | March 25, 2019 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports three Availability Zones in many Regions. This release also includes a streamlined console experience. This multi-AZ requires service software R20181023 or later. | February 7, 2019 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Elasticsearch version 6.4. | January 23, 2019 | |
Amazon ES now lets you create clusters with up to 200 data nodes for a total of 3 PB of storage. | January 22, 2019 | |
Amazon ES now lets you manually update the service software for your domain in order to benefit from new features more quickly or update at a low traffic time. To learn more, see . | November 20, 2018 | |
Amazon ES now offers node-level metrics and new Cluster health and Instance health tabs in the Amazon ES console. | November 20, 2018 | |
China (Beijing) support | Amazon OpenSearch Service is now available in the cn-north-1 Region, where it supports the M4, C4, and R4 instance types. | October 17, 2018 |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports node-to-node encryption, which keeps your data encrypted as Amazon ES distributes it throughout your cluster. | September 18, 2018 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports in-place version upgrades. | August 14, 2018 | |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Elasticsearch version 6.3 and 5.6. | August 14, 2018 | |
Amazon ES now lets you publish Elasticsearch error logs to Amazon CloudWatch. | July 31, 2018 | |
China (Ningxia) Reserved Instances | Amazon ES now offers Reserved Instances in the China (Ningxia) Region. | May 29, 2018 |
Amazon ES now offers support for Reserved Instances. | May 7, 2018 |
Earlier updates
The following table describes important changes Amazon ES before May 2018.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Cognito Authentication for Kibana | Amazon ES now offers login page protection for Kibana. To learn more, see Configuring Amazon Cognito authentication for OpenSearch Dashboards. | April 2, 2018 |
| Elasticsearch 6.2 Support |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Elasticsearch version 6.2. |
March 14, 2018 |
| Korean Analysis Plugin | Amazon ES now supports a memory-optimized version of the Seunjeon |
March 13, 2018 |
| Instant Access Control Updates | Changes to the access control policies on Amazon ES domains now take effect instantly. | March 7, 2018 |
| Petabyte Scale | Amazon ES now supports I3 instance types and total domain storage of up to 1.5 PB. To learn more, see Petabyte scale in Amazon OpenSearch Service. | 19 December 2017 |
| Encryption of Data at Rest | Amazon ES now supports encryption of data at rest. To learn more, see Encryption of data at rest for Amazon OpenSearch Service. | December 7, 2017 |
| Elasticsearch 6.0 Support |
Amazon ES now supports Elasticsearch version 6.0. For migration considerations and instructions, see Upgrading Amazon OpenSearch Service domains. |
December 6, 2017 |
| VPC Support |
Amazon ES now lets you launch domains within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. VPC support provides an additional layer of security and simplifies communications between Amazon ES and other services within a VPC. To learn more, see Launching your Amazon OpenSearch Service domains within a VPC. |
October 17, 2017 |
| Slow Logs Publishing |
Amazon ES now supports the publishing of slow logs to CloudWatch Logs. To learn more, see Monitoring OpenSearch logs with Amazon CloudWatch Logs. |
October 16, 2017 |
| Elasticsearch 5.5 Support |
Amazon ES now supports Elasticsearch version 5.5. You can now restore automated snapshots without contacting AWS Support
and store scripts using the |
September 7, 2017 |
| Elasticsearch 5.3 Support | Amazon ES added support for Elasticsearch version 5.3. | June 1, 2017 |
| More Instances and EBS Capacity per Cluster | Amazon ES now supports up to 100 nodes and 150 TB EBS capacity per cluster. | April 5, 2017 |
| Canada (Central) and EU (London) Support | Amazon ES added support for the following Regions: Canada (Central), ca-central-1, and EU (London), eu-west-2. | March 20, 2017 |
| More Instances and Larger EBS Volumes | Amazon ES added support for more instances and larger EBS volumes. | February 21, 2017 |
| Elasticsearch 5.1 Support | Amazon ES added support for Elasticsearch version 5.1. | January 30, 2017 |
| Support for the Phonetic Analysis Plugin | Amazon ES now provides built-in integration with the Phonetic Analysis plugin, which allows you to run “sounds-like” queries on your data. | December 22, 2016 |
| US East (Ohio) Support | Amazon ES added support for the following Region: US East (Ohio), us-east-2. | October 17, 2016 |
| New Performance Metric | Amazon ES added a performance metric,
ClusterUsedSpace. |
July 29, 2016 |
| Elasticsearch 2.3 Support | Amazon ES added support for Elasticsearch version 2.3. | July 27, 2016 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Support | Amazon ES added support for the following Region: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), ap-south-1. | June 27, 2016 |
| More Instances per Cluster | Amazon ES increased the maximum number of instances (instance count) per cluster from 10 to 20. | May 18, 2016 |
| Asia Pacific (Seoul) Support | Amazon ES added support for the following Region: Asia Pacific (Seoul), ap-northeast-2. | January 28, 2016 |
| Amazon ES | Initial release. | October 1, 2015 |
