Moderate to move
Search with OpenSearch on DigitalOcean: what it becomes and what it costs.
On DigitalOcean, Search with OpenSearch becomes OpenSearch on DigitalOcean Droplets. Same software, run by you: three nodes for a quorum.
Effort grade
Moderate
Same software, self-hosted: you patch, back up and fix it
Cost after the move, before engineer time
40% of today
Open-source replacement exists but someone has to run it; residual is servers plus the engineer time counted separately.
Engineer time
6 h a month
To run the replacement: patching, backups, on-call. Plus about 5 engineer days for the move itself.
Your own Search with OpenSearch line, from your export
Drop one month of your Oracle Cloud cost export and the report prices every service, Search with OpenSearch included, on DigitalOcean list prices of 18 Oct 2026, net of the engineer time to run it. In your browser; nothing is uploaded.