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Training

When you start your migration journey to AWS, your software development, operations, support, and security teams need to be equipped with knowledge of Amazon OpenSearch Service. Consider all teams that interact with your solution. When you are migrating from an Elasticsearch or an OpenSearch environment, most of the knowledge can be carried over. Provide training to the following teams:

  • Software development team – Educate your software development team on the APIs and features, such as mechanisms for configuring data ingestion.

  • Operations team – Train your operations team on how to interact with Amazon OpenSearch Service domains, monitor operational metrics, and access logs using Amazon CloudWatch. Team members should learn how to set up automated alarms to warn when OpenSearch Service domains need attention. If you are migrating from an existing toolset that you use on premises, such as Splunk, identify the monitoring options in Amazon OpenSearch Service that can provide similar visibility into your workloads.

  • Support team – Educate your support team on how to implement runbooks that involve OpenSearch Service resources. You might want to update runbooks and event management procedures to use AWS Support services.

  • Security team – Educate your security team on how to configure fine-grained access control and how to integrate with existing identity providers (IDPs).

Training options

AWS Training and Certification provides both digital and classroom training for beginner to professional level on cloud skills that are required to build and operate solutions on AWS. The content is created by experts at AWS and updated regularly. You have multiple training options.

You can work with your AWS account team to help you identify an appropriate resource. Following are some of the resources that you can use to help upskill your teams on Amazon OpenSearch Service:

  • Immersion days – AWS Solutions Architects can deliver Immersion days, which are hands-on workshops that are tailored to address use cases, common implementation patterns, and roadmap items that might be specifically related to use cases.

  • Hands-on workshops – Teams can follow self-service workshops built by AWS experts.

  • Whitepapers and guides – AWS whitepapers are a great way to expand your knowledge of the cloud. Authored by AWS and the AWS community, they provide in-depth content that often addresses specific customer situations.

  • Blog posts – Written by AWS experts and customers, these blog posts discuss latest announcements, best practices, solutions, service features, customer use cases, and other topics.

  • Best practices – Participate in online or conference talks, or in sessions run by AWS experts that help you understand best practices for Amazon OpenSearch Service.

  • AWS Professional Services – The AWS Professional Services team can provide best practices and prescriptive advice. The team offers a training program to help IT professionals understand and accomplish successful migrations.