Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Elasticsearch 6.5

Posted on: Apr 8, 2019

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports open source Elasticsearch 6.5 and Kibana 6.5. The new version of Elasticsearch and Kibana offers several new features and improvements, including auto-interval date histogram, conditional token filters, and early termination support for min/max aggregations. 

You can now create new domains running Elasticsearch 6.5 and also easily upgrade existing 5.6 and 6.x domains with no downtime using in-place version upgrades

The new version of Elasticsearch and Kibana on Amazon Elasticsearch Service are available across 20 regions globally: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon, N. California), AWS GovCloud (US-Gov-East, US-Gov-West), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), EU (Ireland, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Seoul, Mumbai), and China (Beijing – operated by Sinnet, Ningxia – operated by NWCD).