Amazon OpenSearch Service Lens

Publication date: June 23, 2025 (Document revisions)

The AWS Well-Architected Amazon OpenSearch Service Lens serves as a valuable resource for engineering and implementing secure, efficient, and high-performing OpenSearch Service workloads. This lens caters to various technology professionals such as Chief Technology Officers (CTOs), architects, developers, and operational teams. By using this lens, users can acquire best practices and effective strategies to optimize their OpenSearch Service design, thereby adhering to the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

Introduction

The Amazon OpenSearch Service Lens is a tool designed to help cloud architects and technology professionals create scalable, secure, and efficient Amazon OpenSearch Service workloads. The lens is based on the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. These pillars provide a standardized approach to assessing architectures and deploying scalable designs that meet diverse application and workload requirements.

The lens offers best practices, design principles, and assessment questions specifically tailored for OpenSearch Service workloads. This guidance is informed by our extensive experience collaborating with customers across various industries, segments, sizes, and geographical locations.

By using the Amazon OpenSearch Service Lens, you can gain a comprehensive understanding of AWS best practices and strategies to design and operate optimal architectures for Amazon OpenSearch Service. The lens provides actionable advice on recommended design principles aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework, helping you create highly available, secure, and efficient workloads that meet business requirements.

Custom lens availability

Custom lenses extend the best practice guidance provided by AWS Well-Architected Tool. AWS WA Tool allows you to create your own custom lenses, or to use lenses created by others that have been shared with you.

To determine if a custom lens is available for the lens described in this whitepaper, reach out to your Technical Account Manager (TAM), Solutions Architect (SA), or Support.