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Managed OpenSearch by Canonical

Free up time to focus on building applications and business development rather than maintaining your database. Get automation, enterprise-grade security, scalability, availability, monitoring, and support from trusted experts with our Managed OpenSearch service.


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Managed OpenSearch on your cloud


Why choose Canonical’s
Managed OpenSearch


Streamline operations

Offload critical OpenSearch operational service delivery to Canonical, so that your internal team can focus more on your business goals.


High availability

High uptime backed by an SLA for peace of mind. We guarantee 99.9% availability of the OpenSearch service. Our deep expertise in open source software underpins your SLA.


Secure and compliant

Our operations are certified, with regular independent audits for your assurance.


Innovate at scale with your data

Delivering at web scale can be immensely challenging. Canonical’s managed services for OpenSearch scale efficiently – so your service remains stable and exceptionally cost effective as your business grows.


Our process

Our Managed Solutions process is easy and intuitive. You’ll initially be consulted by our specialists to design the best managed solution for your needs. Afterwards, it’s all on us:


1. Deployment

Specialised Canonical engineers deploy a database sustainably and efficiently on any cloud.


2. Management

Our team manages all your ‘day 2’ operations, from observability to upgrades. We handle all issues, and consistently re-enforce the security of your environment.


2. Optional handover

We’re lock-in free, so if after a while you want to start managing your environments by yourself, we can teach you how and give you remote support for high-severity cases.


Managed NoSQL databases for big data and AI-powered applications

Watch the webinar for a deep dive into the advantages of adopting a managed NoSQL database for key big data and AI use cases.

Learn what operational excellence means for NoSQL databases, and how you can achieve it.


Key features

  • Backed by a 99.9% uptime SLA.

    Your data is the backbone of your business. Canonical ensures that it’s available with a high uptime commitment. Canonical managed services for OpenSearch keep the data flowing.

  • Service delivery with security in mind.

    Minimise risks. Canonical managed services are routinely audited for conformance to industry standards and legislation like GDPR, ISO:27001 and SOC-2 Type II.

  • A complete solution, on your cloud tenancy or in your data centre.

    Canonical covers the full project engagement including architecture design, deployment, transition and day to day operations.

  • Service health dashboards for full transparency.

    We provide you with access to OpenSearch health dashboards, so that you can verify the health and uptime of your service directly.


Managed OpenSearch pricing

A low total cost of ownership. Up to five times lower than cloud services when fully costed.


Managed OpenSearch on public cloud instances

$3099

Per year,
per VM*

The low-cost solution for maximum scalability.


  • Highly automated service delivery for security and efficiency
  • Real operations staff proactively monitoring and on call 24/7
  • Includes upgrades and security patches

* Management fee does include the cloud infrastructure cost.


Managed OpenSearch on OpenStack

$9470

Per year,
per node*

Secure, managed service delivered to your on-premise data centre by our OpenSearch operations team.


  • Deliver a web scale OpenSearch data platform on-premise (bare metal) with our managed services team
  • Maximize efficiency gains
  • SLA and compliance commitments so data isn’t compromised

* All nodes in the cluster must be covered. Per-VM pricing is also available.



Managed OpenSearch resources

Future-proof AI applications with OpenSearch as a vector database

This webinar explains the role of vector databases in LLMs. In addition, it provides an overview of how OpenSearch can be used to embed storage and search.


Large Language Models (LLMs) Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) using Charmed OpenSearch

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a method that enables users to converse with data repositories. It’s a tool that can revolutionise how you access and use data, as we showed in our tutorial. Charmed OpenSearch is a simple and robust technology that can enable RAG capabilities.