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AWS SigV4 support for OpenSearch clients

Dec 13, 2022 • feature, ,

OpenSearch clients now support the ability to sign requests using AWS Signature V4. This has been a community request for a while, and we’re happy to announce that we have...

OpenSearchCon Videos Are Now Available

Dec 12, 2022 • community

OpenSearchCon 2022 is now available on our YouTube channel! View demos and talks about observability, log analytics, speeding up your search, and much more!

Launch highlight: Paginate with Point in Time

Dec 09, 2022 • community

New for version 2.4, Point in Time (PIT) is the preferred pagination method for OpenSearch. While OpenSearch still supports other ways of paginating results, PIT search provides superior capabilities and...

Partner Highlight: Improving search performance for a better user experience

Nov 28, 2022 • partners

In search, speed is key to delivering a good user experience. In a recent blog post, Noam Schwartz of OpenSearch Project partner Searchium.ai explores five ways to improve search speed...

Launch highlight: Multiple authentication options for OpenSearch Dashboards

Nov 17, 2022 • community

We’re excited to announce support for concurrent multiple authentication methods in OpenSearch Dashboards. This enhancement to the Dashboards security plugin provides a more unified and user-friendly login experience to Dashboards...

Launch Highlight: Multiple Data Sources

Nov 16, 2022 • community

OpenSearch Dashboards’ current architecture works only with a single OpenSearch cluster, and to view data in different OpenSearch clusters and to navigate between Dashboards endpoints, users must have a complete...

OpenSearch 2.4.0 is available today!

Nov 15, 2022 • releases

OpenSearch 2.4.0 brings Windows support, security analytics, new geospatial features, and a variety of upgrades for search, analytics, and observability use cases

OpenSearch partner highlight: Using Cloaked Search to protect your data

Nov 14, 2022 • partners

Most companies will tell you that the data they hold is well protected. They’ll say it’s encrypted “at rest and in transit,” which means they use HTTPS and disk-level or...

The thud test: Measuring OpenSearch Documentation

Nov 11, 2022 • feature

When I first started my career as a technical writer about 20 years ago, success was measured by the volume of content produced. Back then, everything was printed and bound....

Adding new distributions to the OpenSearch Project

Oct 31, 2022 • community

Starting with OpenSearch version 1.3.2 for 1.x, and 2.0.0 for 2.x, OpenSearch has expanded its artifacts into multiple distributions, including TAR, Docker, and RPM. Looking back, it has been a...

From the editor's desk: OpenSearch Project voice and tone

Oct 26, 2022 • community

In the first installment of our From the editor’s desk series, we focused on the OpenSearch Project and inclusion, a subject that is foundational to who we are and how...

Learn-to-Rank with OpenSearch and Metarank

Oct 25, 2022 • community

Metarank is an open-source secondary ranker that can perform advanced search results by reordering the results with a LambdaMART learning to rank (LTR) model. In this post, we’ll discuss why...

OpenSearch automated build system is now live

Oct 24, 2022 • community

The OpenSearch Project deployed automated build, test, and release infrastructure that supports the end-to-end lifecycle of public distributions with the launch of OpenSearch 2.3.0. This includes the migration of OpenSearch...

Partner Highlight: AWS explores different k-NN algorithms and workload optimizations

Oct 19, 2022 • partners

OpenSearch partner and contributor AWS recently published a blog that focuses on the different algorithms and techniques used to perform approximate k-NN search at scales of more than a billion...

Are you asking the right people the right questions?

Oct 19, 2022 • technical-post

There's no better feeling than getting some help from a living, breathing human being and finding out I'm not alone in my struggle.