# How to Stop, \_close or re-index in Amazon ES (AWS)

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-close-or-re-index-in-amazon-es-aws/105322
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 26, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-close-or-re-index-in-amazon-es-aws/105322 "2017-10-26T03:26:22Z")
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### Author: ![gautam\_gro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@gautam\_gro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gautam_gro)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-close-or-re-index-in-amazon-es-aws/105322/1 "2017-10-26T03:26:22Z")

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I want to update mappings of existing index in Amazon ES (AWS).

But i am getting error...."**Your request '[https://amazon.xx.xxxxxx/testindex/\_close](https://amazon.xx.xxxxxx/testindex/_close)**' is not allowed by **Amazon ElasticSearch service**"

Any suggestion?

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 4:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-close-or-re-index-in-amazon-es-aws/105322/2 "2017-10-26T04:38:28Z")

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AWS service is known to block some of the APIs.  
You can’t do that then.

May be create a new index, and delete the old one?

Have you considered [cloud.elastic.co](http://cloud.elastic.co)?

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### Author: ![gautam\_gro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@gautam\_gro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gautam_gro)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 4:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-close-or-re-index-in-amazon-es-aws/105322/3 "2017-10-26T04:56:30Z")

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I think deleting an existing index and creating new one is not an appropriate approach...... There must be some way to do this in AWS.

Currently, i don't have licence for [cloud.elastic.co](http://cloud.elastic.co) . So that's why i was trying to utilize my existing AWS membership.  
AWS supports Elastic Search through ElasticSearch Service. But i am not aware of unsupported features through AWS ES.

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-close-or-re-index-in-amazon-es-aws/105322/4 "2017-10-26T05:15:39Z")

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Cloud by elastic runs on AWS. And you can use your AWS account to be billed.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2017, 5:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-close-or-re-index-in-amazon-es-aws/105322/5 "2017-11-23T05:22:38Z")

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