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Open Search 3.2
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Introducing OpenSearch 3.2: Next-generation search and analytics with enhanced AI capabilities

August 19, 2025
OpenSearch 3.2 includes new features to enhance and broaden search, observability, and generative AI use cases.
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Technical

Hosting OpenSearch MCP Server with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

August 27, 2025
Learn to deploy OpenSearch MCP server on Bedrock AgentCore Runtime to securely connect AI agents with OpenSearch clusters using CloudFormation or CLI methods.
LF anniversary

OpenSearch at the Linux Foundation: One year of innovation and community growth

August 24, 2025
A look at how OpenSearch has grown into a trusted open-source platform for next-gen analytics, AI, and global collaboration One year ago, the OpenSearch Project joined the Linux Foundation with...
Community

Case Study: SAP Unifies Observability at Scale with OpenSearch and OpenTelemetry

August 22, 2025
Executive Takeaway To support its vast cloud ecosystem, SAP is advancing its observability strategy with a strong focus on open standards. A key pillar of this strategy is SAP Cloud...

Introducing OpenSearch Benchmark 2.0

August 21, 2025
OpenSearch Benchmark 2.0 redefines the benchmarking experience and introduces long-awaited features that offer users the essential tools needed to measure, track, and optimize OpenSearch performance.

Scaling vector generation: Batch ML inference with OpenSearch Ingestion and ML Commons

August 20, 2025
Learn how to use OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines to automate ML batch inference for offline ingestion.
Open Search 3.2
Technical

Introducing OpenSearch 3.2: Next-generation search and analytics with enhanced AI capabilities

August 19, 2025
OpenSearch 3.2 includes new features to enhance and broaden search, observability, and generative AI use cases.

Performance optimizations for the OpenSearch security layer

August 14, 2025
Explore key performance optimizations in OpenSearch's security layer, including privilege evaluation and security enhancements that deliver major throughput improvements for clusters of all sizes.
Community Technical

Taking your first steps towards search relevance

August 13, 2025
OpenSearch 3.1 introduces the Search Relevance Workbench, a comprehensive toolkit that helps improve and fine-tune your search relevance through experimentation.

Diving deep into distributed microservices with OpenSearch and OpenTelemetry

August 12, 2025
Explore distributed tracing with OpenSearch 3.1 and OpenTelemetry, featuring enhanced service maps and trace analytics. Learn how to collect and analyze telemetry data using OpenSearch Dashboards.
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Community

Unpacking OpenSearch 3.0: AI, observability, and governance on the OpenObservability Talks podcast

August 8, 2025
Dotan Horovits talks with Carl Meadows and Pallavi Priyadarshini about how the May 2025 launch of OpenSearch 3.0 reflects the project’s evolution under Linux Foundation governance.
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Community Technical

Using OpenSearch for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

August 7, 2025
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) boosts large language model performance by grounding responses in real-time data. Learn how OpenSearch enables scalable, accurate, and trusted RAG solutions.

Transforming bucket aggregations: Our journey to 100x performance improvement

August 5, 2025
Learn how OpenSearch improves the performance of date histogram aggregations by using the BKD index tree, with support for sub-aggregations and multi-range traversal.

The new semantic field: Simplifying semantic search in OpenSearch

July 31, 2025
Semantic search improves result relevance by using a machine learning (ML) model to generate dense or sparse vector embeddings from unstructured text. Traditionally, enabling semantic search has required several manual...
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The state of OpenSearch user groups: Building a global community

July 30, 2025
An overview of the OpenSearch User Group program and some observations Kris Freedain shared as part of a keynote presentation at OpenSearchCon Europe 2025.

Building a multimodal search engine in OpenSearch

July 29, 2025
Go beyond keyword search and learn how to build a multimodal search engine in OpenSearch. This post will show you how to implement one in OpenSearch using the ML inference ingest and search request processors.
Community

Case Study: Bringing Fulfillment into Focus: How KRUU Uses OpenSearch for Real-Time Monitoring

July 25, 2025
At KRUU, Europe’s leading photo booth rental provider, smooth logistics are critical to customer satisfaction. The company’s signature product, a rentable, shippable photo booth for weddings and special events, is...

Using OpenSearch as a Vector Database

July 25, 2025
Traditional lexical search, based on term frequency models like blend term frequency models (BM25), is widely used and effective for many search applications. However, lexical search techniques require significant investment...

OpenSearch approximation framework

July 24, 2025
The Approximation Framework is a performance optimization in OpenSearch that introduces early termination during BKD tree traversal. It enhances the efficiency of numeric range, sort, and match_all queries by collecting only the required number of documents. This framework delivers exact results with significantly reduced query latency.

Advanced usage of the semantic field in OpenSearch

July 23, 2025
Explore advanced semantic field features in OpenSearch, including text chunking, support for externally hosted and custom models, cross-cluster usage, and updating model references.

Introducing semantic highlighting in OpenSearch

July 17, 2025
Explore OpenSearch 3.0's semantic highlighting, an AI-powered feature that intelligently identifies relevant passages based on meaning rather than exact keyword matches. Learn how to enhance your search applications with this powerful capability.