Why upgrade?
Upgrading your OpenSearch instances to Graviton2 types allows you to cut costs twice. You get an immediate 10% reduction in costs. The performance gains allow for resizing, which can cut costs even further.
Performance gains
- Indexing throughput: +38%
- Indexing latency: -50%
- Query performance: +30%
How do I upgrade?
You can upgrade the instance using the AWS console. We will add detailed instructions in the Whitepaper. If you want a simple automated solution, try CloudFix that can apply such fixes for you.
Supported versions
- Version 7.9 and above: no-downtime upgrade
- Version 7.x: low-downtime upgrade
Graviton2 instance types
- General purpose (M6g)
- Compute optimized (C6g)
- Memory optimized (R6g, R6gd)