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Amazon OpenSearch Service
Plans and prices
Pay as you go
Priced on request
No minimum fee or usage requirement · Pricing depends on deployment model, instance type, storage tier, and usage
Read 7 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
On the record
- AI applications
- AWS describes use cases including RAG, recommendations, chatbots, semantic search, and multimodal and conversational search.aws.amazon.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Amazon Bedrock
- OpenSearch Service has native two-way integration with Amazon Bedrock and is AWS's recommended vector database for Bedrock.aws.amazon.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Availability
- AWS states a 99.99% SLA for highly available, multi-AZ deployments with standby.aws.amazon.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- AWS says OpenSearch Service is HIPAA-eligible and compliant with PCI DSS, SOC, ISO, and FedRAMP standards.aws.amazon.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Compliance caveat
- AWS says choosing a particular OpenSearch or Elasticsearch version when creating a domain does not guarantee compliance.docs.aws.amazon.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- The vector database is available in fully managed and serverless configurations.aws.amazon.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Free usage
- AWS's getting-started page describes Free Tier usage of up to 750 hours per month of a t2.small.search instance and 10 GB per month of optional EBS storage.aws.amazon.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Hybrid search
- It can combine vector embeddings and text-based keywords in a single search request.aws.amazon.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Integration
- Zero-ETL integrations with Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon DocumentDB support vector search across operational data.aws.amazon.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Operations
- AWS says the service provides seamless upgrades and patches, 24/7 monitoring, self-healing, and automatic scaling for serverless deployments.aws.amazon.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Pricing detail
- The pricing page's example lists $0.24 per OCU-hour for Serverless indexing and search, and $0.02 per GB per month for managed storage.aws.amazon.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service for deploying and operating search, observability, and log analytics applications.aws.amazon.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Security
- The service supports encryption at rest and in transit, and granular permissions for indices, documents, and fields.aws.amazon.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Vector search
- Its vector engine supports k-NN and ANN search using HNSW and IVF implementations, including searches over billions of high-dimensional vectors.aws.amazon.com · read 7 Oct 2026
