Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers hourly snapshots

AI Impact Summary

Amazon OpenSearch Service is introducing hourly snapshots for domains running Elasticsearch 5.3 and later, providing more frequent backups than the previous daily snapshots. This change allows for more granular restoration points and improved data recovery capabilities, particularly important for applications requiring frequent backups or rapid recovery from data loss events. This update also includes several other enhancements, including GPU acceleration for vector indexes and support for Graviton4 instances.