Managing Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipeline costs

Stopping and starting Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines helps you manage costs for development and test environments. You can temporarily stop a pipeline instead of setting it up and tearing it down each time that you use the pipeline.

Overview of stopping and starting an OpenSearch Ingestion pipeline

You can stop a pipeline during periods where you don't need to ingest data into it. You can start the pipeline again anytime you need to use it. Starting and stopping simplifies the setup and teardown processes for pipelines used for development, testing, or similar activities that don't require continuous availability.

While your pipeline is stopped, you aren't charged for any Ingestion OCU hours. You can still update stopped pipelines, and they receive automatic minor version updates and security patches.

Don't use starting and stopping if you need to keep your pipeline running but it has more capacity than you need. If your pipeline is too costly or not very busy, consider reducing its maximum capacity limits. For more information, see Scaling pipelines.