Amazon OpenSearch Service
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Amazon OpenSearch Service, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Amazon OpenSearch Service's own pricing page, checked 7 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Pay as you go | — | No minimum fee or usage requirement · Pricing depends on deployment model, instance type, storage tier, and usage · Managed clusters are charged for instance hours, storage, and data transfer; Serverless is charged separately for compute and storage based on usage. |
The facts
Each one read from Amazon OpenSearch Service's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Where it runs
- AI applications
- AWS describes use cases including RAG, recommendations, chatbots, semantic search, and multimodal and conversational search.checked 7 Oct 2026
What it does
- Amazon Bedrock
- OpenSearch Service has native two-way integration with Amazon Bedrock and is AWS's recommended vector database for Bedrock.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Availability
- AWS states a 99.99% SLA for highly available, multi-AZ deployments with standby.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- AWS says OpenSearch Service is HIPAA-eligible and compliant with PCI DSS, SOC, ISO, and FedRAMP standards.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Compliance caveat
- AWS says choosing a particular OpenSearch or Elasticsearch version when creating a domain does not guarantee compliance.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- The vector database is available in fully managed and serverless configurations.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Hybrid search
- It can combine vector embeddings and text-based keywords in a single search request.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Integration
- Zero-ETL integrations with Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon DocumentDB support vector search across operational data.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Operations
- AWS says the service provides seamless upgrades and patches, 24/7 monitoring, self-healing, and automatic scaling for serverless deployments.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Pricing detail
- The pricing page's example lists $0.24 per OCU-hour for Serverless indexing and search, and $0.02 per GB per month for managed storage.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service for deploying and operating search, observability, and log analytics applications.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Security
- The service supports encryption at rest and in transit, and granular permissions for indices, documents, and fields.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Vector search
- Its vector engine supports k-NN and ANN search using HNSW and IVF implementations, including searches over billions of high-dimensional vectors.checked 7 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2006checked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free usage
- AWS's getting-started page describes Free Tier usage of up to 750 hours per month of a t2.small.search instance and 10 GB per month of optional EBS storage.checked 7 Oct 2026
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