Amazon OpenSearch Service adds log analytics engine
Amazon OpenSearch Service now includes a new engine purpose-built for log analytics, offering up to 4x better price-performance and up to 70% lower storage costs. This enhancement allows teams to perform fast analytical queries and retains more data at lower cost, benefiting those managing growing log volumes from cloud-native and AI workloads. Users can enable this new engine for domains running OpenSearch 3.5 or above via the AWS console, with availability in 12 regions globally.
- →New engine optimized for log analytics
- →Combined analytical and full-text search capabilities
- →Enabling the optimized engine
Features (1) ›
- New engine optimized for log analytics
Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces a new engine specifically for log analytics workloads, designed to improve price-performance by up to 4x. This engine offers optimized columnar storage for aggregations, potentially reducing storage costs by up to 70% and allowing for 3x more data retention at the same cost. It also provides up to 2x higher ingestion throughput and 2x faster analytical queries.
Enhancements (1) ›
- Combined analytical and full-text search capabilities
The new engine for log analytics integrates full-text search with analytical query capabilities. Users can now combine full-text search predicates with analytical SQL queries in a single request, facilitating both detailed incident investigations and broader trend analysis.
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- Enabling the optimized engine
To utilize the new engine, users should create a new Amazon OpenSearch Service domain with OpenSearch version 3.5 or above and select the 'observability' use case. The engine mode can then be set to 'optimized'. The new engine is available across 12 global AWS regions at no additional charge.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-opensearch-service-optimized-log-analytics