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Home » Your configuration journey, step by step » Configure your indexes » Create an Amazon AWS Elasticsearch index

Create an Amazon AWS Elasticsearch index

6048 views 1 February 13, 2019 Updated on June 24, 2022

⚠️ Amazon AWS is no longer updating its Elasticsearch service.

Consider creating an Amazon AWS OpenSearch  index instead.

Setup WPSOLR and Amazon AWS Elasticsearch

From WPSOLR 21.3.

This video suppose you already signed up to create an AWS account (Amazon Elasticsearch Service).

We will show you how to configure your first Elasticsearch index creation with a few clicks.

 

What is Amazon AWS Elasticsearch?

It is a service to host open source Elasticsearch indexes (with the ELK stack), managed by Amazon AWS. Rather than installing Elasticsearch on your own servers, you get a subscription and let the service manage your indexes on your behalf. No need of manpower, or servers, anymore.

WPSOLR (the plugin) communicates with the Elasticsearch  service through the Elasticsearch rest api. With a zest of AWS SDK for authentication.

Here is the video tutorial to create and secure (authentication by user/secret) your first Elasticsearch cluster:

 

1 – Signup for a free test subscription at AWS Elasticsearch

2 – Create a Key/Secret to secure your Elasticsearch indexes

2.1 – Navigate to your security credentials

Amazon Elasticsearch: credentials menu
Credentials menu

 

2.2 – Navigate to your policies

Amazon Elasticsearch: policies menu
AWS Elasticsearch: policies menu

 

2.3 – Click on Create policy button

Image wpsolr-amazon-cluster-button-new-policy.png of Create an Amazon AWS Elasticsearch index
Create policy button

 

2.4 – Add the Elasticsearch service to the new policy

Image wpsolr-amazon-cluster-new-policy-add-elasticsearch-service.png of Create an Amazon AWS Elasticsearch index
New policy select Elasticsearch service

 

2.5 – Add all Elasticsearch service actions (es:*) to the new policy

Amazon Elasticsearch: new policy select all actions
New policy select all actions

 

2.6 – Add all domains resources to the new policy

Amazon Elasticsearch: new policy select all domains
New policy select all domains

 

2.7 – Review the the new policy

Amazon Elasticsearch: new policy review
New policy review

 

2.8 – New policy has been created

Amazon Elasticsearch: new policy created
New policy created

 

2.9 – Navigate to your users menu. Click on Add user button

Amazon Elasticsearch: new user button
New user button

 

2.10 – Give new user a programmatic access: he will carry the access keys used by WPSOLR to access the index

Amazon Elasticsearch: new user give programmatic access to use access keys
New user give programmatic access to use access keys

 

2.11 – Attach new policy to new user

Amazon Elasticsearch: new user attach our policy
New user attach our policy

 

2.12 – Download user access keys before saving

Amazon Elasticsearch: new user download access keys before saving
New user download access keys before saving

 

2.13 – New user has been created

Amazon Elasticsearch: new user has been created
New user has been created

 

3 – Create a new Elasticsearch domain (aka “cluster”)

3.1 – Navigate to the Elasticsearch service page

Amazon Elasticsearch: new Elasticsearch domain menu
New Elasticsearch domain menu

 

3.2 – Click on Create a new domain button

Amazon Elasticsearch: new Elasticsearch domain button
New Elasticsearch domain button

 

3.3 – Select the latest Elasticsearch version

Amazon Elasticsearch: new Elasticsearch domain version
New Elasticsearch domain version

 

3.4 – Configure your domain instances

Amazon Elasticsearch: new Elasticsearch domain instance
New Elasticsearch domain instance
  1. Set a number of instance types deployed in your domain
    An instance type is a VM (virtual machine). Each index in your domain will be split in primary shards and replicas (copy of shards). Each shard and each replica will be stored on exactly one instance. How many instance you need depends on: how many and how big indexes are, and how many shards and replicas are there per index.
  2. Select a VM type for each instance in your domain
    The VM type defines how many resources (and of which quality) are given to each instance: RAM, disk, vCPUs.

 

3.5 – Configure your domain instances SSD storage

Amazon Elasticsearch: new Elasticsearch domain SSD storage
New Elasticsearch domain SSD storage

AWS recommend that you allocate three dedicated master nodes for each production Amazon ES domain.
Fast disks are extremely important for Elasticsearch performance. Always choose SSD storage, not magnetic.

 

3.6 – Configure your domain network access: VPC or internet

Choose a VPC access if your WordPress is also hosted on Amazon AWS:

Amazon Elasticsearch: new Elasticsearch domain VPC access
New Elasticsearch domain VPC access

Or choose an internet access if your WordPress is not hosted on Amazon AWS:

Amazon Elasticsearch: new Elasticsearch domain internet access
New Elasticsearch domain internet access

 

3.7 – Copy your new user ARN (aka “user ID”)

Amazon Elasticsearch: new Elasticsearch domain copy user ARN
New Elasticsearch domain copy user ARN

 

3.8 – Select the domain template policy

Amazon Elasticsearch: new Elasticsearch domain template policy
New Elasticsearch domain template policy

 

3.9 – Paste your new user ARN in the template policy

Amazon Elasticsearch: new Elasticsearch domain paste user ARN
New Elasticsearch domain paste user ARN

 

3.10 – Copy the new domain endpoint to copy in WPSOLR later

Amazon Elasticsearch: new Elasticsearch domain copy endpoint
New Elasticsearch domain copy endpoint

Wait a few minutes, until the cluster is deployed. Then copy the endpoint that will later be pasted in WPSOLR.

 

3.11 – Summary. We now have: a new domain, with its endpoint, access key/secret, and region

Amazon Elasticsearch: new Elasticsearch domain no indexes yet
New Elasticsearch domain no indexes yet

 

4 – Create a new index in WPSOLR

Here is the video tutorial to create your first Amazon AWS Elasticsearch index in WPSOLR:

4.1 – Activate your WPSOLR license

WPSOLR admin: activate a license
WPSOLR admin: activate a license if your site is not dev/test/staging

After buying or trying WPSOLR, check your email for your license code. Enter the code in the activation popup window as show above. Wait a few seconds for WPSOLR servers to return a response, which will unlock the WPSOLR admin screens.

4.2 – Select “Elasticsearch”, then “Amazon AWS” hosting

WPSOLR admin: new index menu
WPSOLR admin: new index menu

 

WPSOLR Amazon index: select Amazon hosting
WPSOLR Amazon index: select Amazon hosting

 

4.3 – Paste the Amazon domain Endpoint url

WPSOLR Amazon index: paste Amazon domain endpoint url
WPSOLR Amazon index: paste Amazon domain endpoint url

 

4.4 – Paste the AWS user access keys. The user is attached to the domain policy.

WPSOLR Amazon index: paste Amazon domain's policy user access keys
WPSOLR Amazon index: paste Amazon domain’s policy user access keys

Do not forget to enter your AWS access control key and secret, as shown in the above screen.

4.5 – Paste the domain region

Copy the domain’s region from your Amazon AWS console:

Amazon Elasticsearch: new Elasticsearch domain region
New Elasticsearch domain region

 

Then copy the region to WPSOLR’s index form:

WPSOLR Amazon index: paste Amazon domain's region
WPSOLR Amazon index: paste Amazon domain’s region

 

4.6 – Index is created !

WPSOLR Amazon index: index created !
WPSOLR Amazon index: index created !

Click on the button “Check the index status”, which calls the Elasticsearch create index api. Wait for active shards acknowledged true (a few seconds at most). The newly created index is now ready to accept your documents.

4.7 – Send your data to the index

WPSOLR Amazon index: index indexed
WPSOLR Amazon index: index indexed

Select your index (you can have more than one), click on the “Index” button. Wait while your documents are sent in batch to the AWS index in real time.

4.8 – Perform a few searches

WPSOLR Amazon index: perform a search with facets
WPSOLR Amazon index: perform a search with facets

 

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