# Updating settings for all indices in an Amazon Hosted Elasticsearch Cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/updating-settings-for-all-indices-in-an-amazon-hosted-elasticsearch-cluster/224285>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 19, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/updating-settings-for-all-indices-in-an-amazon-hosted-elasticsearch-cluster/224285 "2020-03-19T15:32:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![egibrajshori](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/egibrajshori/32/64749_2.png) [@egibrajshori](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/egibrajshori)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/updating-settings-for-all-indices-in-an-amazon-hosted-elasticsearch-cluster/224285/1 "2020-03-19T15:32:01Z")

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Hi,

I'm trying to update a particular setting for all indices on one of our Elasticsearch clusters with a PUT request for \_settings without specifying the index, which according to the documentation updates the specified settting for all indices.

That is returning a :

{"Message":"Your request: '/\_settings' is not allowed."}

After researching some more apparently we can't do that on AWS hosted Elasticsearch solutions so we have to go index by index and update the settings which is a pain in the ass.

Is there any other workaround we can implement?

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/updating-settings-for-all-indices-in-an-amazon-hosted-elasticsearch-cluster/224285/2 "2020-03-29T14:27:40Z")

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Can you not update `/*/_settings` ? If not I suspect this is something you need to bring up with Amazon support as I am not aware what possible restrictions they have implemented on their Elasticsearch version.

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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:** [April 26, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/updating-settings-for-all-indices-in-an-amazon-hosted-elasticsearch-cluster/224285/3 "2020-04-26T14:27:43Z")

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Closed on April 26, 2020, 2:27pm UTC

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