AWS announces OR2 and OM2 instances for Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces two new instances- OR2 and OM2, expanding the OpenSearch Optimized Instance family. The new generation OR2 instance delivers up to 26% higher indexing throughput compared to previous OR1 instances and 70% over R7g instances. The new OM2 instance delivers up to 15% higher indexing throughput compared to OR1 instances and 66% over M7g instances in internal benchmarks.

The new generation OpenSearch Optimized instances use the same architecture as the OR1 instances, leveraging best-in-class cloud technologies like Amazon S3, to provide high durability, and improved price-performance for higher indexing throughput better for indexing heavy workload. Each OpenSearch Optimized instance is provisioned with compute, local instance storage for caching, and remote Amazon S3-based managed storage. OR2 and OM2 offers pay-as-you-go pricing and reserved instances, with a simple hourly rate for the instance, local instance storage, as well as the managed storage provisioned. OR2 instances come in sizes ‘medium’ through ‘16xlarge’, and offer compute, memory, and storage flexibility. OM2 instances come in sizes ‘large’ through ‘16xlarge’ Please refer to the Amazon OpenSearch Service pricing page for pricing details.

OR2 instance family is now available on Amazon OpenSearch Service across 10 regions globally: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Spain), and Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo, Mumbai).

OM2 instance family is now available on Amazon OpenSearch Service across 6 regions globally: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon) and Europe (London, Frankfurt, Stockholm).