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Status Future consideration
Workspace Intelligent Promising
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 18, 2025

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SIP Compatibility with AWS OpenSearch

The SIP is currently compatible with Elasticsearch 7.17.9 and future fix packs. It leverages the Elasticsearch Java client version 7.17.28, which includes a built-in validation for the response header "X-Elastic-Product: Elasticsearch".

This header check poses a challenge when interfacing with AWS OpenSearch. Although OpenSearch was originally forked from Elasticsearch 7.10, it has since diverged significantly in terms of architecture and functionality. Consequently, OpenSearch does not consistently include the "X-Elastic-Product" header in its responses, leading to compatibility issues with the SIP client.

Reference

This behavior is documented in an AWS blog post that outlines the differences between OpenSearch and Elasticsearch, and the rationale behind the development of dedicated OpenSearch clients to address these gaps.

Request

Given the above, we believe this may warrant an enhancement to the SIP to support AWS OpenSearch more gracefully, possibly by:

  • Allowing configurable header validation.
  • Supporting OpenSearch-specific client libraries.
  • Providing clearer integration guidelines for OpenSearch environments.
  • Admin
    Sampson Wong
    Jul 28, 2025

    Requirement out of scope for 2025, Will consider support in future roadmap. dates to be determined.

    To inform if the customer already has ES running, there will be a migration effort.

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