Getting Started with Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that helps you perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more. OpenSearch Service provisions all the resources for your cluster and launches it. It also automatically detects and replaces failed OpenSearch Service nodes, reducing the overhead associated with self-managed infrastructures. You can quickly scale your cluster with a single API call or in the console.

In this course, you will learn about the benefits and technical concepts of OpenSearch Service. You will review the architecture and built-in features. You will also have an opportunity to run search queries, perform log analytics, and visualize your data using dashboards through demonstrations.

      •    Course level: Fundamental

      •    Duration: 1 hour

Activities

This course includes demonstrations, videos, and assessments.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to do the following:

      •    Understand how OpenSearch Service works.

      •    Familiarize yourself with the technical concepts of OpenSearch Service.

      •    List typical use cases for OpenSearch Service.

      •    Recognize the benefits of OpenSearch Service.

      •    Explain the cost structure of OpenSearch Service.

      •    Run queries to search documents in OpenSearch Service.

      •    Perform log analytics on web logs from the OpenSearch Service Discover page.

      •    Create dashboards and visualizations to visualize the data.

Intended audience

This course is intended for the following:

      •    Site reliability engineer

      •    Site reliability architect

      •    Operations infrastructure lead

      •    Cloud architect

      •    Cloud engineer

      •    DevOps engineer

      •    Cybersecurity engineer

      •    search architect

Prerequisites

Basic understanding of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), virtual private clouds (VPCs), and networking concepts

Course outline

Module 1: Introduction to Amazon OpenSearch Service

Module 2: Using OpenSearch Service to Architect a Cloud Solution

Module 3: Typical Use Cases for OpenSearch Service

Module 4: Factors to Keep in Mind When Using OpenSearch Service

Module 5: OpenSearch Service Cost Structure

Module 6: Basic Technical Concepts of OpenSearch Service

      •    Launch an OpenSearch Service cluster

      •    Ingest movie dataset to the cluster

      •    Query movie dataset from OpenSearch Dashboards

      •    Perform log analysis on sample web logs dataset

      •    Create visualizations and dashboards for web logs