AWS turbocharges log analytics in Amazon OpenSearch Service at no extra cost

Amazon Web Services Inc. is reinventing the way data-intensive analytical workloads are handled by the Amazon OpenSearch Service with the launch of a new, purpose-built log analytics engine today.

The cloud computing giant says the new engine is able to reduce data storage costs by around 70% on average while doubling data ingestion throughput. That way, organizations can conduct analytical queries twice as fast as before, without adapting the underlying hardware configuration.

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed version of the open-source OpenSearch platform, which is designed to handle distributed search and analytics workloads. It’s used for tasks such as real-time application monitoring, log analytics, web search and security monitoring, as well as broad-based observability applications.

The service can ingest massive streams of data from sources including cloud infrastructure, applications and network devices, before being sent onward to populate interactive dashboards that track system health and performance and identify operational problems.