# Using AWS Maps within Kibana

**URL:** <https://forum.opensearch.org/t/using-aws-maps-within-kibana/5700>\
**Category:** Open Source Elasticsearch and Kibana\
**Created:** [April 21, 2021, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/using-aws-maps-within-kibana/5700 "2021-04-21T14:25:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![asfoorial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@asfoorial](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/asfoorial)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/using-aws-maps-within-kibana/5700/1 "2021-04-21T14:25:37Z")

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Greetings,

It was mentioned in yesterday’s meeting that OpenSearch Dashboards uses AWS Maps Service by default. I was wondering if we could use that services with current OpenDistro/Kibana. I am currently using OpenDistro 1.9.

Thanks,  
Hasan

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**Author:** ![searchymcsearchface](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/searchymcsearchface/32/868_2.png) [@searchymcsearchface](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/searchymcsearchface)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/using-aws-maps-within-kibana/5700/2 "2021-04-21T16:25:32Z")

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It is configurable by a yaml file, IIRC. So you could pull the setting out of the OpenSearch Dashboards and put it into Open Distro. I’m curious _why_ you want to use the new maps over the provide one?

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**Author:** ![asfoorial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@asfoorial](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/asfoorial)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/using-aws-maps-within-kibana/5700/3 "2021-04-21T18:50:05Z")

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No particular reason really. Just wanted to explore it in light of OpenDistro before getting my hands dirty with OpenSearch.

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**Author:** ![searchymcsearchface](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/searchymcsearchface/32/868_2.png) [@searchymcsearchface](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/searchymcsearchface)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 7:51pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/using-aws-maps-within-kibana/5700/4 "2021-04-21T19:51:55Z")

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Curiosity is a valid reason! I’m glad it’s not something bad (which was my fear). I just talked to one of the developers on the project and the new map tiles are actually not fully enabled yet. When they are I’ll point you to the config file.

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**Author:** ![searchymcsearchface](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/searchymcsearchface/32/868_2.png) [@searchymcsearchface](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/searchymcsearchface)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/using-aws-maps-within-kibana/5700/5 "2021-04-22T16:26:33Z")

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@asfoorial I think you can modify the kibana.yml file and change:

```auto
map.tilemap.url: "https://tiles.maps.search-services.aws.a2z.com/tiles/{z}/{x}/{y}.png"
map.includeElasticMapsService: false

```

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**Author:** ![asfoorial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@asfoorial](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/asfoorial)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/using-aws-maps-within-kibana/5700/6 "2021-04-22T17:00:50Z")

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Thanks @searchymcsearchface I will give it a try.