Conclusion

Amazon OpenSearch Service takes away the undifferentiated heavy lifting that is required to develop and operate self-managed Elasticsearch or OpenSearch clusters. If you are considering a migration to Amazon OpenSearch Service, you can use the process outlined in this guide to plan and choose a migration strategy that works for your situation.

Migrations can be as basic as taking a snapshot from self-managed cluster and restoring it in Amazon OpenSearch Service domain, or they can be as involved as testing all existing functionality and integrations. This guide provides information that can be used by migration project teams to make sure they have covered all aspects of a migration and to build a robust implementation strategy.

Amazon OpenSearch Service documentation has a dedicated section on Operational best practices. We recommend that you follow guidance provided in the documentation to operate your newly migrated environment.