Django-Haystack using Amazon Elasticsearch hosting with IAM credentials

Question

I am hoping to use Amazon\'s Elasticsearch server to power a search of longtext fields in a Django database. However, I also don\'t want to expose this search to those who don\'

Answer 1

You are one step from success, add connection_class to KWARGS and everything should work as expected.

import elasticsearch

HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.elasticsearch_backend.ElasticsearchSearchEngine',
        'URL': [AWSHOST],
        'INDEX_NAME': 'haystack',
        'KWARGS': {
            'port': 443,
            'http_auth': awsauth,
            'use_ssl': True,
            'verify_certs': True,
            'connection_class': elasticsearch.RequestsHttpConnection,
        }
    },
}