Moderate to move
OpenSearch Service on Akamai (Linode): what it becomes and what it costs.
On Akamai (Linode), OpenSearch Service becomes Self-hosted OpenSearch cluster, or an Akamai Managed Database. Same software. On Hetzner you run it yourself; where the destination sells the managed engine (DigitalOcean, OVHcloud and Scaleway for most of them) it costs roughly twice the bare server, still well under today's price.
Effort grade
Moderate
Same software, self-hosted: you patch, back up and fix it
Cost after the move, before engineer time
35% of today
r6g.large.search (16 GB) is $0.167/h = $122/mo per node; a CX43 (16 GB) is €16.49 ≈ $19; three nodes plus snapshots to object storage come to about 35%.
Engineer time
6 h a month
To run the replacement: patching, backups, on-call. Plus about 5 engineer days for the move itself.
Other ways to replace it
The report lets you pick any of these per service; the figure and the grade follow.
Elastic Cloud or managed OpenSearch at Akamai (Linode), or an Akamai Managed Database
Same software, run by the vendor: cluster upgrades and snapshots stay someone else's job, and most of today's price stays with them.
80% of today · Easy
Meilisearch or Typesense on Akamai Linode compute instances for application search
Far cheaper for product and site search, but a different engine: indexes and queries are rebuilt, and log analytics needs another home.
20% of today · Hard
In three modelled AWS accounts
What OpenSearch Service costs in the modelled accounts and what the estimator makes of it on Akamai (Linode), with the default assumptions. Not customer data.
| Account | AWS /mo | Akamai /mo | Change | Priced by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scale-up on Kubernetes$24,950/mo in total | $1,300 | $455 | −$845 | ratio |
| Data-heavy platform$79,640/mo in total | $2,900 | $1,015 | −$1,885 | ratio |
Your own OpenSearch Service line, from your export
Drop one month of your AWS cost export and the report prices every service, OpenSearch Service included, on Akamai (Linode) list prices of 18 Oct 2026, net of the engineer time to run it. In your browser; nothing is uploaded.