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

Almost every search application is multi-tenant, whether or not anyone called it that. A store has product categories. A SaaS product has customers. A logging platform has teams, an e-commerce site has sellers, a B2B app has accounts. Each of those is a tenant: a slice of data, and the queries that go with it, that has to stay separate from every other slice. If you run Amazon OpenSearch Service, odds are you are already in the tenancy business. And here is the thing about tenancy: it is almost free when you have a few tenants, and it quietly turns into the whole problem when you have a lot of them. A design that is clean and obvious at a hundred tenants can fall apart at a hundred thousand, for reasons that have nothing to do with the code being wrong. Take a concrete case. You are running a fintech app, peer-to-peer payments or a neobank, and millions of users each expect to open their phone, pull up six months of history, and see it instantly. That data behaves like logs, streaming
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