title: AWS ElasticSearchService index_create_block_exception
body: <p>I'm trying to create a new index in AWS ElasticSearch cluster after increasing the cluster size and seeing index_create_block_exception. How can i rectify this? I tried searching but did not get exact answers. Thank you.  </p>
  
  <pre><code>curl -XPUT 'http://&lt;aws_es_endpoint&gt;/optimus/'
  
  {"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"index_create_block_exception","reason":"blocked by: [FORBIDDEN/10/cluster create-index blocked (api)];"}],"type":"index_create_block_exception","reason":"blocked by: [FORBIDDEN/10/cluster create-index blocked (api)];"},"status":403}
  </code></pre>