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Published inAug 2023
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Behram Irani
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Behram Irani

Behram Irani is currently a technology leader with Amazon Web Services (AWS) specializing in data, analytics and AI/ML. He has spent over 18 years in the tech industry helping organizations, from start-ups to large-scale enterprises, modernize their data platforms. In the last 6 years working at AWS, Behram has been a thought leader in the data, analytics and AI/ML space; publishing multiple papers and leading the digital transformation efforts for many organizations across the globe. Behram has completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Pune and has an MBA degree from the University of Florida.
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OpenSearch (https://opensearch.org/) is an open source search engine forked from Elasticsearch 7.10.2. It also contains a visualization dashboard component that is forked from Kibana 7.10.2. OpenSearch has a distributed architecture where documents are collected in an index; these indices are divided into shards. Multiple nodes are present in an OpenSearch domain, where shards are replicated across nodes for high availability. In that sense, a lot of configuration, setup, and operational overhead is needed to set up a self-managed OpenSearch platform.

To alleviate the infrastructure setup pain, AWS provides a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale OpenSearch clusters. Amazon OpenSearch Service can either be created in provisioned mode, where users get to select the type and number of nodes to leverage in a cluster, or it can be in serverless mode, where there is no sizing to be done. Provisioned mode is suitable for steady and...

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Behram Irani

Behram Irani is currently a technology leader with Amazon Web Services (AWS) specializing in data, analytics and AI/ML. He has spent over 18 years in the tech industry helping organizations, from start-ups to large-scale enterprises, modernize their data platforms. In the last 6 years working at AWS, Behram has been a thought leader in the data, analytics and AI/ML space; publishing multiple papers and leading the digital transformation efforts for many organizations across the globe. Behram has completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Pune and has an MBA degree from the University of Florida.
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