Introduction to Amazon Elasticsearch

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6. Delete the Data

In this step, you learn to delete the records in the index.

  1. Perform DELETE action with the following URL to delete record with id = 1. Replace {ES_ENDPOINT_URL} with Elasticsearch Endpoint.

    URL: {ES_ENDPOINT_URL}/organization/employee/1

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  2. You can also delete record based on the condition. POST the following URL to delete record where name = Rana Dave.

    URL: {ES_ENDPOINT_URL}/organization/_delete_by_query

    {
  "query": {
    "match": {
      "name": "Rana Dave"
    }
  }
}

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  3. In the next step, you learn to perform bulk operations for the update and delete.