Amazon Web Services (AWS) is introducing a new log analytics engine for Amazon OpenSearch Service, SiliconANGLE reported on July 1 local time.

The new engine cuts data storage costs by an average 70 percent while doubling data ingestion throughput. The company said it can double analytics query speeds versus current levels without changing hardware configurations.

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service based on the open-source OpenSearch. It is used for real-time application monitoring and log analysis, web search and security monitoring.

AWS said the volume of log analytics data at most companies is growing 30 to 40 percent each year. As data from AI applications surges, companies face situations where they must increase budgets, add separate analytics databases or delete a significant portion of log data without analysis.

The engine AWS introduced is offered as a selectable mode within an Amazon OpenSearch Service domain. It can increase log data ingestion while keeping existing console, security architecture and network configurations unchanged.

The new engine will be available from July 1 in all AWS regions that support OpenSearch-optimized instances. Users can apply the new engine by selecting "observability" as the primary use case in the AWS console when creating a domain. Pricing is the same as existing instance and standard storage rates, with no additional costs.