Jon Handler

I am a Senior Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services based in Palo Alto, CA, and an ambassador for the OpenSearch Project.

Palo Alto, CA Joined on Jul 24, 2026 https://aws.amazon.com

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Solutions Architect

Jon Handler

Sep 1

Build a Search App in 200 Lines. Let OpenSearch Serverless Handle the Other 10,000.

#opensearch #serverless #vectorsearch #airetrieval

5 min read

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Jon Handler

Aug 27

Your AI Agent Just Read the man Pages. OpenSearch Agent Skills Turn Your IDE Into a Search Engineer.

#opensearch #airetrieval #vectorsearch #opensource

5 min read

Jon Handler

Aug 25

The $11,000/Month diff: You're Shipping 600 DPI When 150 Gets the Job Done

#opensearch #vectordatabase #semanticsearch #cloudcomputing

3 min read

Jon Handler

Aug 21

Your Search Engine Is Running grep on a Dictionary. OpenSearch Automatic Semantic Enrichment Fixes That.

#opensearch #semanticsearch #vectorsearch #airetrieval

5 min read

Jon Handler

Aug 19

What If Your Search Infrastructure Only Existed When Someone Searched?

#opensearch #serverless #cloudcost #airetrieval

4 min read

Jon Handler

Aug 17

Read Your AI Agent's Mind. OpenSearch Observability for LLM Traces.

#amazonopensearchservice #llmobservability #opentelemetry #devops

5 min read

Jon Handler

Aug 14

1TB Migrated in 33 Minutes. The Agent Didn't Even Need Coffee.

#opensearch #migration #aiagents #devops

4 min read

Jon Handler

Aug 11

Forget Total Recall. Give Your AI Agent Selective Memory with OpenSearch.

#opensearch #vectorsearch #airetrieval #aimemory

5 min read

Jon Handler

Aug 6

Stop Making Your Database Pretend It Can Search

#opensearch #aws #dataengineering #database

6 min read

Jon Handler

Aug 4

Your Search Backend Speaks MCP Now

#opensearch #aws #ai #mcp

4 min read

Jon Handler

Aug 1

"Most Of Your Vectors Are Steerage. Why Are They In First Class?"

#opensearch #aws #ai #vectorsearch

6 min read

Jon Handler

Jul 27

Fix Your Search, Fix Your RAG Output

#opensearch #search #ai #rag

6 min read

Jon Handler

Jul 24

The Million-Tenant Problem: Why Your OpenSearch Service Architecture Breaks at Scale

#opensearch #aws #architecture #logging

8 min read

Jon Handler

Jul 24

Your Search Engine Has Been Doing the Heavy Lifting (And You Never Noticed)

#opensearch #search #ai #machinelearning

6 min read

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Build a Search App in 200 Lines. Let OpenSearch Serverless Handle the Other 10,000.

Want to connect with Jon Handler?

Your AI Agent Just Read the man Pages. OpenSearch Agent Skills Turn Your IDE Into a Search Engineer.

The $11,000/Month diff: You're Shipping 600 DPI When 150 Gets the Job Done

Your Search Engine Is Running grep on a Dictionary. OpenSearch Automatic Semantic Enrichment Fixes That.

What If Your Search Infrastructure Only Existed When Someone Searched?

Read Your AI Agent's Mind. OpenSearch Observability for LLM Traces.

1TB Migrated in 33 Minutes. The Agent Didn't Even Need Coffee.

Forget Total Recall. Give Your AI Agent Selective Memory with OpenSearch.

Stop Making Your Database Pretend It Can Search

Your Search Backend Speaks MCP Now

"Most Of Your Vectors Are Steerage. Why Are They In First Class?"

Fix Your Search, Fix Your RAG Output

The Million-Tenant Problem: Why Your OpenSearch Service Architecture Breaks at Scale

Your Search Engine Has Been Doing the Heavy Lifting (And You Never Noticed)