AWS elastic-search. FORBIDDEN/8/index write (api). Unable to write to index

Question

I am trying dump a list of docs to an AWS elastic-search instance. It was running fine. Then, all of sudden it started throwing this error:

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Answer 1

ES could apply write block on index during rollovers, or Low disk space or memory.

In order to stop these errors you need to remove the write block on the index by setting index.blocks.write to false

curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" 'http://localhost:9200/{index_name}/_settings' -d '{ "index": { "blocks": { "write": "false" } } } '