# Kibana Shards

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-shards/270835
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [April 21, 2021, 12:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-shards/270835 "2021-04-21T12:08:27Z")
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### Author: ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2021, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-shards/270835/4 "2021-04-21T14:01:09Z")

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What I meant to say is this isn't an AWS-Elasticsearch forum. AWS support can probably help you.

In general - you can specify this by using a template with these settings (see [How change default number of shards](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-change-default-number-of-shards/117985))

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