diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6658e562..a2317635 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Inspired from [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 - Added generating imports and headers to API generator ([#467](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-py/pull/467))
 - Added point-in-time APIs (create_pit, delete_pit, delete_all_pits, get_all_pits) and Security Client APIs (health and update_audit_configuration) ([#502](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-py/pull/502))
 - Added new guide for using index templates with the client ([#531](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-py/pull/531))
+- Added `pool_maxsize` for `Urllib3HttpConnection` ([#535](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-py/pull/535))
 ### Changed
 - Generate `tasks` client from API specs ([#508](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-py/pull/508))
 - Generate `ingest` client from API specs ([#513](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-py/pull/513))
diff --git a/USER_GUIDE.md b/USER_GUIDE.md
index b14ee0ad..416bbc4d 100644
--- a/USER_GUIDE.md
+++ b/USER_GUIDE.md
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ print(response)
 - [Point in Time](guides/point_in_time.md)
 - [Using a Proxy](guides/proxy.md)
 - [Index Templates](guides/index_template.md)
+- [Connection Classes](guides/connection_classes.md)
 
 ## Plugins
 
diff --git a/guides/auth.md b/guides/auth.md
index 4b314764..3e7f4092 100644
--- a/guides/auth.md
+++ b/guides/auth.md
@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@ client = OpenSearch(
     ['htps://...'],
     use_ssl=True,
     verify_certs=True,
-    connection_class=RequestsHttpConnection,
     http_auth=HTTPKerberosAuth(mutual_authentication=OPTIONAL)
 )
 
diff --git a/guides/connection_classes.md b/guides/connection_classes.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..da7357fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guides/connection_classes.md
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+- [Connection Classes](#connection-classes)
+  - [Selecting a Connection Class](#selecting-a-connection-class)
+    - [Urllib3HttpConnection](#urllib3httpconnection)
+    - [RequestsHttpConnection](#requestshttpconnection)
+    - [AsyncHttpConnection](#asynchttpconnection)
+  - [Connection Pooling](#connection-pooling)
+
+# Connection Classes
+
+The OpenSearch Python synchronous client supports both the `Urllib3HttpConnection` connection class (default) from the [urllib3](https://pypi.org/project/urllib3/) library, and `RequestsHttpConnection` from the [requests](https://pypi.org/project/requests/) library. We recommend you use the default, unless your application is standardized on `requests`.
+
+The faster, asynchronous client, implements a class called `AsyncHttpConnection`, which uses [aiohttp](https://pypi.org/project/aiohttp/).
+
+## Selecting a Connection Class
+
+### Urllib3HttpConnection
+
+```python
+from opensearchpy import OpenSearch, Urllib3HttpConnection
+
+client = OpenSearch(
+    hosts = [{'host': 'localhost', 'port': 9200}],
+    http_auth = ('admin', 'admin'),
+    use_ssl = True,
+    verify_certs = False,
+    ssl_show_warn = False,
+    connection_class = Urllib3HttpConnection
+)
+```
+
+### RequestsHttpConnection
+
+```python
+from opensearchpy import OpenSearch, RequestsHttpConnection
+
+client = OpenSearch(
+    hosts = [{'host': 'localhost', 'port': 9200}],
+    http_auth = ('admin', 'admin'),
+    use_ssl = True,
+    verify_certs = False,
+    ssl_show_warn = False,
+    connection_class = RequestsHttpConnection
+)
+```
+
+### AsyncHttpConnection
+
+```python
+from opensearchpy import AsyncOpenSearch, AsyncHttpConnection
+
+async def main():
+    client = AsyncOpenSearch(
+        hosts = [{'host': 'localhost', 'port': 9200}],
+        http_auth = ('admin', 'admin'),
+        use_ssl = True,
+        verify_certs = False,
+        ssl_show_warn = False,
+        connection_class = AsyncHttpConnection
+    )
+```
+
+## Connection Pooling
+
+The OpenSearch Python client has a connection pool for each `host` value specified during initialization, and a connection pool for HTTP connections to each host implemented in the underlying HTTP libraries. You can adjust the max size of the latter connection pool with `pool_maxsize`. 
+
+If you don't set this value, each connection library implementation will provide its default, which is typically `10`. Changing the pool size may improve performance in some multithreaded scenarios.
+
+The following example sets the number of connections in the connection pool to 12.
+
+```python
+from opensearchpy import OpenSearch
+
+client = OpenSearch(
+    hosts = [{'host': 'localhost', 'port': 9200}],
+    http_auth = ('admin', 'admin'),
+    use_ssl = True,
+    verify_certs = False,
+    ssl_show_warn = False,
+    pool_maxsize = 12,
+)
+```
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/guides/proxy.md b/guides/proxy.md
index 5be7edf4..96b7d441 100644
--- a/guides/proxy.md
+++ b/guides/proxy.md
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ OpenSearch(
     hosts=["htps://..."],
     use_ssl=True,
     verify_certs=True,
-    connection_class=RequestsHttpConnection,
     trust_env=True,
 )
 ```
diff --git a/opensearchpy/connection/http_urllib3.py b/opensearchpy/connection/http_urllib3.py
index 6fc09e72..4bc27bbb 100644
--- a/opensearchpy/connection/http_urllib3.py
+++ b/opensearchpy/connection/http_urllib3.py
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ class Urllib3HttpConnection(Connection):
         ``ssl`` module for exact options for your environment).
     :arg ssl_assert_hostname: use hostname verification if not `False`
     :arg ssl_assert_fingerprint: verify the supplied certificate fingerprint if not `None`
-    :arg maxsize: the number of connections which will be kept open to this
+    :arg pool_maxsize: the number of connections which will be kept open to this
         host. See https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/1.4/pools.html#api for more
         information.
     :arg headers: any custom http headers to be add to requests
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ def __init__(
         ssl_version=None,
         ssl_assert_hostname=None,
         ssl_assert_fingerprint=None,
-        maxsize=10,
+        pool_maxsize=None,
         headers=None,
         ssl_context=None,
         http_compress=None,
@@ -203,8 +203,11 @@ def __init__(
                 if not ssl_show_warn:
                     urllib3.disable_warnings()
 
+        if pool_maxsize and isinstance(pool_maxsize, int):
+            kw["maxsize"] = pool_maxsize
+
         self.pool = pool_class(
-            self.hostname, port=self.port, timeout=self.timeout, maxsize=maxsize, **kw
+            self.hostname, port=self.port, timeout=self.timeout, **kw
         )
 
     def perform_request(
diff --git a/opensearchpy/transport.py b/opensearchpy/transport.py
index 32c9baf4..301955df 100644
--- a/opensearchpy/transport.py
+++ b/opensearchpy/transport.py
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ def __init__(
         serializers=None,
         default_mimetype="application/json",
         max_retries=3,
+        pool_maxsize=None,
         retry_on_status=(502, 503, 504),
         retry_on_timeout=False,
         send_get_body_as="GET",
@@ -120,6 +121,8 @@ def __init__(
             don't support passing bodies with GET requests. If you set this to
             'POST' a POST method will be used instead, if to 'source' then the body
             will be serialized and passed as a query parameter `source`.
+        :arg pool_maxsize: Maximum connection pool size used by pool-manager
+            For custom connection-pooling on current session
 
         Any extra keyword arguments will be passed to the `connection_class`
         when creating and instance unless overridden by that connection's
@@ -139,6 +142,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.deserializer = Deserializer(_serializers, default_mimetype)
 
         self.max_retries = max_retries
+        self.pool_maxsize = pool_maxsize
         self.retry_on_timeout = retry_on_timeout
         self.retry_on_status = retry_on_status
         self.send_get_body_as = send_get_body_as
@@ -211,6 +215,8 @@ def _create_connection(host):
             # previously unseen params, create new connection
             kwargs = self.kwargs.copy()
             kwargs.update(host)
+            if self.pool_maxsize and isinstance(self.pool_maxsize, int):
+                kwargs["pool_maxsize"] = self.pool_maxsize
             return self.connection_class(**kwargs)
 
         connections = map(_create_connection, hosts)
diff --git a/test_opensearchpy/test_client/test_requests.py b/test_opensearchpy/test_client/test_requests.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..11434a17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_opensearchpy/test_client/test_requests.py
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+# The OpenSearch Contributors require contributions made to
+# this file be licensed under the Apache-2.0 license or a
+# compatible open source license.
+#
+# Modifications Copyright OpenSearch Contributors. See
+# GitHub history for details.
+
+from unittest import TestCase
+
+from opensearchpy import OpenSearch, RequestsHttpConnection
+
+
+class TestRequests(TestCase):
+    def test_connection_class(self):
+        client = OpenSearch(connection_class=RequestsHttpConnection)
+        self.assertEqual(client.transport.pool_maxsize, None)
+        self.assertEqual(client.transport.connection_class, RequestsHttpConnection)
+        self.assertIsInstance(
+            client.transport.connection_pool.connections[0], RequestsHttpConnection
+        )
+
+    def test_pool_maxsize(self):
+        client = OpenSearch(connection_class=RequestsHttpConnection, pool_maxsize=42)
+        self.assertEqual(client.transport.pool_maxsize, 42)
+        self.assertEqual(
+            client.transport.connection_pool.connections[0]
+            .session.adapters["https://"]
+            ._pool_maxsize,
+            42,
+        )
diff --git a/test_opensearchpy/test_client/test_urllib3.py b/test_opensearchpy/test_client/test_urllib3.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..227164eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_opensearchpy/test_client/test_urllib3.py
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+# The OpenSearch Contributors require contributions made to
+# this file be licensed under the Apache-2.0 license or a
+# compatible open source license.
+#
+# Modifications Copyright OpenSearch Contributors. See
+# GitHub history for details.
+
+from unittest import TestCase
+
+from urllib3.connectionpool import HTTPConnectionPool
+
+from opensearchpy import OpenSearch, Urllib3HttpConnection
+
+
+class TestUrlLib3(TestCase):
+    def test_default(self):
+        client = OpenSearch()
+        self.assertEqual(client.transport.connection_class, Urllib3HttpConnection)
+        self.assertEqual(client.transport.pool_maxsize, None)
+
+    def test_connection_class(self):
+        client = OpenSearch(connection_class=Urllib3HttpConnection)
+        self.assertEqual(client.transport.connection_class, Urllib3HttpConnection)
+        self.assertIsInstance(
+            client.transport.connection_pool.connections[0], Urllib3HttpConnection
+        )
+        self.assertIsInstance(
+            client.transport.connection_pool.connections[0].pool, HTTPConnectionPool
+        )
+
+    def test_pool_maxsize(self):
+        client = OpenSearch(connection_class=Urllib3HttpConnection, pool_maxsize=42)
+        self.assertEqual(client.transport.pool_maxsize, 42)
+        # https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.12/Lib/queue.py#L35
+        self.assertEqual(
+            client.transport.connection_pool.connections[0].pool.pool.maxsize, 42
+        )