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Jon Handler

Author: Jon Handler

Jon Handler (@_searchgeek) is a Principal Solutions Architect at HAQM Web Services based in Palo Alto, CA. Jon works closely with the CloudSearch and Elasticsearch teams, providing help and guidance to a broad range of customers who have search workloads that they want to move to the AWS Cloud. Prior to joining AWS, Jon's career as a software developer included four years of coding a large-scale, eCommerce search engine. Jon holds a Bachelor of the Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Science and a Ph. D. in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Northwestern University.

Analyze URL paths to search individual elements in HAQM Elasticsearch Service

September 8, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. If you’re building a data lake in the AWS cloud, you’ll most likely want to have metadata and catalog search capability for the underlying data. We recommend HAQM Elasticsearch Service (HAQM ES) for storing and searching S3 keys, and S3 […]

Run a petabyte scale cluster in HAQM Elasticsearch Service

September 8, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. February 9, 2024: HAQM Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to HAQM Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. When you use HAQM Elasticsearch Service (HAQM ES) for log data, you’re drinking from what usually becomes […]

Get started with HAQM Elasticsearch Service: T-shirt-size your domain

September 8, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. Welcome to this introductory series on Elasticsearch and HAQM Elasticsearch Service (HAQM ES). In this and future blog posts, we provide the basic information that you need to get started with Elasticsearch on AWS. Introduction When you’re spinning up your […]

Get started with HAQM Elasticsearch Service: Use HAQM Cognito for Kibana access control

September 8, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. Welcome to this introductory series on Elasticsearch and HAQM Elasticsearch Service (HAQM ES). In this and future blog posts, we provide the basic information that you need to get started with Elasticsearch on AWS. Introduction On April 2, 2018, we […]

Get started with HAQM Elasticsearch Service: an easy way to send AWS SigV4 signed requests

September 8, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. Welcome to this introductory series on Elasticsearch and HAQM Elasticsearch Service (HAQM ES). In this and future blog posts, we provide the basic information that you need to get started with Elasticsearch on AWS. Introduction If you are using an […]

Get Started with HAQM Elasticsearch Service: Use Dedicated Master Instances to Improve Cluster Stability

September 8, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. Welcome to this introductory series on Elasticsearch and HAQM Elasticsearch Service (HAQM ES). In this and future articles, we provide the basic information that you need to get started with Elasticsearch on AWS. What dedicated master instances are and why […]

Get Started with HAQM Elasticsearch Service: Set CloudWatch Alarms on Key Metrics

September 8, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. Welcome to this introductory series on Elasticsearch and HAQM Elasticsearch Service (HAQM ES). In this and future articles, we provide the basic information that you need to get started with Elasticsearch on AWS. While supporting the many thousands of HAQM […]

Viewing HAQM Elasticsearch Service Slow Logs

September 8, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. Today, HAQM Elasticsearch Service (HAQM ES) announced support for publishing slow logs to HAQM CloudWatch Logs. This new feature enables you to publish Elasticsearch slow logs from your indexing and search operations and gain insights into the performance of those […]

Get Started with HAQM Elasticsearch Service: Filter Aggregations in Kibana

September 8, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. Welcome to this introductory series on Elasticsearch and HAQM Elasticsearch Service (HAQM ES). In this and future articles, we provide the basic information that you need to get started with Elasticsearch on AWS. You figured out how cool Elasticsearch is, […]