Posted On: Sep 1, 2024

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Amazon Graviton3 instances, which deliver up to 25% better performance over Graviton2-based instances. The new instance types are compute optimized (C7g), general purpose (M7g), and memory optimized (R7g) instances. You can update your domain to the new instances seamlessly through the OpenSearch Service console or APIs.

Amazon Graviton3 processors are custom-designed Amazon Graviton processors that enable the ideal price performance for workloads in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). They offer up to 30 Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 20 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). To learn more about Graviton3 improvements, please see the blog.

Amazon OpenSearch Service Graviton3 instances support all OpenSearch versions and Elasticsearch (open source) versions 7.9 and 7.10.

To learn more about region specific instance type availability and their pricing, visit our pricing page. To learn more about Amazon OpenSearch Service, please visit the product page.