Cross-Region resilience for Amazon OpenSearch Service has historically been a complex challenge, relying on S3-based snapshots or cross-cluster replication that demand intricate manual failover procedures often resulting in hours of downtime, data inconsistencies, and significant lag during outages, or other operational disruptions. To overcome these limitations and help businesses stay focused on their core objectives, we’ve developed a solution that automatically maintains synchronized data across AWS Regions while supporting active-active operations in both AWS Regions.
AWS offers two OpenSearch offerings, namely Amazon OpenSearch Service, a managed cluster-based service where you provision and manage OpenSearch domains (nodes, storage, scaling), and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, a serverless option where AWS automatically manages infrastructure and scaling and you create collections for your search or analytics workloads. OpenSearch Service provides high…