Managing Amazon OpenSearch UI infrastructure as code with AWS CDK

This article explains how to automate Amazon OpenSearch UI infrastructure deployment using AWS CDK and Lambda, enabling consistent dashboard creation across environments.

• Deploy OpenSearch UI applications and dashboards as infrastructure-as-code using AWS CDK
• Use Lambda custom resources to automatically create workspaces, visualizations, and dashboards
• Authenticate API requests using AWS Signature Version 4 with correct service name
• Generate and ingest sample data for immediate dashboard visualization
• Create dashboards programmatically via OpenSearch Dashboards Saved Objects APIs
• Support VPC-deployed domains with fine-grained access control configurations
• Import/export dashboards as NDJSON files for CI/CD pipeline integration
• Sample code available in AWS Samples GitHub repository

This solution enables teams to version-control dashboards, deploy consistently across regions, and reduce manual setup overhead through infrastructure-as-code practices.