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February 10, 2026
OpenSearch 3.5 is available for download, with significant upgrades for observability workloads and search use cases, new tools to build more powerful agentic applications, and a number of enhancements to help you optimize operations.

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Performance Technical

Beyond filter rewrite: How doc value skip indexes accelerate aggregations in OpenSearch

March 11, 2026
OpenSearch doc value skip indexes deliver up to 28x faster aggregations on uncorrelated filter and aggregation fields, overcoming key filter rewrite limitations.
Community Technical

OpenSearch Agent Health: Open-source observability and evaluation for AI agents

March 5, 2026
Discover why AI agents fail in silence and how OpenSearch Agent Health solves it with open-source trace observability, automated benchmarking, and LLM judge evaluation.
Technical

Accelerating FP16 vector search performance using bulk SIMD in OpenSearch 3.5

March 3, 2026
Discover how OpenSearch FP16 vector search performance improved up to 310% throughput using bulk SIMD in OpenSearch 3.5, with progressive optimizations across 3.1, 3.4, and 3.5 reducing p99 latency to 91 ms.
Technical

OpenSearch 3.4’s agentic search in OpenSearch Dashboards: Hands-on use cases and examples

January 8, 2026
Explore OpenSearch 3.4's agentic search UI in Dashboards. Configure AI agents, test natural language queries, and export configurations with hands-on examples.
Technical

A customer impact journey: When no data is still important data

December 31, 2025
Discover how OpenSearch's Anomaly Detection handles missing data with configurable imputation, turning data silence into critical alert signals. Learn how configurable imputation strategies and Klarna's real-world monitoring use case.
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Technical

The benefits of random rotation in quantized vector search

December 30, 2025
Discover how random rotation in OpenSearch 3.2 improves binary quantization accuracy by removing axis correlations without changing true distances in your data.
Technical

OpenSearch and Apache Arrow: A tour of the archery range

December 23, 2025
Discover OpenSearch's experimental Apache Arrow integration. Learn how Arrow Flight enables zero-copy data transfer between nodes, improving throughput for large-scale analytics and observability workloads.
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Technical

Introducing resource sharing: A new access control model for OpenSearch

December 17, 2025
OpenSearch 3.3 introduces resource sharing and access control, enabling teams to securely share ML models, anomaly detectors, and other plugin resources with fine-grained permissions.
Technical

OpenSearch 3.3: Performance innovations for AI search solutions

December 8, 2025
OpenSearch 3.3 delivers breakthrough performance with 11× faster queries, optimized vector search, and enhanced AI capabilities. Discover the latest innovations in search and analytics performance.
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Technical

Boost search relevance with late interaction models

December 4, 2025
Discover how late interaction models enhance vector search accuracy by preserving token-level information, balancing efficiency with precision for superior semantic search results.
Technical

OpenSearch as an agentic memory solution: Building context-aware agents using persistent memory

December 2, 2025
Learn how OpenSearch 3.3's agentic memory system enables AI agents to maintain context and learn from past interactions using persistent memory and intelligent processing capabilities.
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Technical

Asymmetric distance computation for binary quantization

November 26, 2025
Learn how asymmetric distance computation (ADC) in OpenSearch achieves 32-fold memory compression for vector search while maintaining better recall than traditional binary quantization methods.
Technical

Better observability, deeper insights: OpenSearch’s new Piped Processing Language capabilities

November 25, 2025
OpenSearch 3.3, PPL, Piped Processing Language, log analytics, observability, Apache Calcite, data analysis, time-series analysis, log processing, data visualization, OpenSearch 3.3, database querying, data monitoring, security analytics
Technical

Introducing agentic search in OpenSearch: Transforming data interaction through natural language

November 24, 2025
With OpenSearch 3.3, we are excited to introduce _agentic search_, a major evolution in the way you interact with your data. Agentic search lets you explore your data using a natural language interface, without needing to construct query domain-specific language (DSL) queries manually.
Lucene Technical

Adaptive refresh for resilient segment replication

November 21, 2025
Segment replication is a powerful index replication strategy for high QPS workloads that allows physical isolation and decoupling of indexing and search workloads, rapid replica failovers, and seamless point-in-time restores. However, this efficiency comes with its own unique challenges. During high indexing bursts, or if replication is delayed due to network issues, the system can accumulate large replication checkpoints. Searchers (replica shards) struggle to absorb these checkpoints, experiencing high page faults, thrashing for in-flight queries, and degraded search performance. This blog post describes how to address these issues and build a resilient segment-replicated system using Lucene's powerful new hooks for "Adaptive Refresh".
Technical

Amazon Kiro CLI integration: Log pattern and data distribution analysis

November 20, 2025
Learn how to integrate Amazon Q CLI with OpenSearch's log pattern analysis and data distribution tools for streamlined command-line diagnostics and enhanced system troubleshooting capabilities.
Technical

Introducing real-time streaming for AI models and agents in OpenSearch

November 18, 2025
In today’s fast-paced digital world, waiting isn’t an option, especially when it comes to AI-powered applications. Streaming technology has emerged as a critical solution to this challenge, fundamentally changing how...
Technical

Improving vector search diversity through native MMR

November 17, 2025
Learn how to improve search result diversity using OpenSearch 3.3's native Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR) for k-NN and neural queries. Includes implementation guide and performance benchmarks.
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Technical

Save up to 2x on storage with derived source

October 22, 2025
Storage is a key factor driving the infrastructure cost of your OpenSearch cluster. As your data grows, storage requirements can increase multifold, depending on whether OpenSearch stores documents in multiple...
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Releases Technical

Explore OpenSearch 3.3

October 14, 2025
OpenSearch 3.3 is available for download, with a number of new features designed to help your search, observability, and AI-powered applications. This release delivers an array of upgrades across use...