Case Study: a large enterprise cuts search infrastructure costs by 26% with OpenSearch and Bonsai

a large enterprise cuts infrastructure costs by 26% with OpenSearch

A large enterprise faced escalating costs and performance limitations with its mission-critical legacy Elasticsearch 7.10.2 deployment. The customer was struggling with high infrastructure expenses and limited scalability on an aging architecture. OpenSearch, in partnership with Bonsai, provided the solution to modernize their search platform.

OpenSearch executed a direct migration to OpenSearch 2.15 while modernizing the infrastructure on AWS Graviton 4 processors. This approach included adopting advanced compression codecs and expert management from Bonsai. The solution delivered a 26% cost reduction, saving over $175,000 annually, while achieving better search performance, higher reliability, and future readiness for AI workloads.