In today’s world, we produce vast amounts of unstructured data, making it difficult to find relevant information. This course will provide an understanding of lexical search, its capabilities, and how to use them to harness the full potential of OpenSearch. You will learn the fundamentals of search capabilities and gain proficiency in basic lexical searches. By the end of the course, you will possess the knowledge and skills needed to formulate tailored search queries and optimize information retrieval processes. You will also use a search engine to enhance your data discovery and analysis capabilities.
- Course level: Intermediate
- Duration: 120 minutes
Activities
This course includes presentations, demonstrations, and assessments.
Course objectives
By the end of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Recognize Amazon OpenSearch Service capabilities
- Recognize data ingestion options in OpenSearch Service.
- Identify how OpenSearch Service communicates with client applications.
- Recognize key OpenSearch Service mapping functionality and aggregation types.
- Recognize performance tuning options and pagination methods.
- Perform lexical search and advanced search queries in OpenSearch Service.
Intended Audience:
This course is intended for:
- Analytics solutions architects
- Database administrators
- Database engineers
- Data architects
- Solutions architects
- Data platform engineers
- IT operations engineers
- Search specialists
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
- A basic knowledge of OpenSearch Service or Amazon OpenSearch Serverless on the AWS platform.
- Completed the Level 100 course on Skill Builder for OpenSearch Service, Getting Started with Amazon OpenSearch Service. 
Course outline
- Module 1: Introduction
- Search with OpenSearch Service
- OpenSearch Service Ingestion Patterns
- Dataset ingestion with OpenSearch service
- Module 2: Lexical Search
- Introduction to Lexical Search:
- Search Queries with OpenSearch Service
- Implementation of Lexical Search in Practical Applications
- Profile and Explain APIs
- Module 3: Advanced Lexical Search in OpenSearch
- Autocomplete
- Spellcheck and Synonyms
- Highlight and Pagification
- Search Score and Rank
- Perform an Efficient Search
- Clean Up Resources
- Module 4: Resources
- Learn More
