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Amazon CloudSearch Reviews & Product Details

Amazon CloudSearch is a managed service in the AWS Cloud that makes it simple and cost-effective to set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website or application.

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Amazon CloudSearch is a managed service in the AWS Cloud that makes it simple and cost-effective to set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website or application.

Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

6 months

Return on Investment

17 months

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Amazon CloudSearch Reviews (15)

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/9/2022

"Amazon CloudSearch - Must have for better outputs and quick turnaround"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon CloudSearch?

Automatically scales with the demands of your application or website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudSearch?

Time consumed to Create and configuring a search domain Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Darren L.

sr director of marketing

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/2/2021

"Amazing tool for providing site find and search, customers love it!"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon CloudSearch?

Was very easy to implement, great customer service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudSearch?

Not much, found it very successful, perhaps needed more reading than anticipated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rakesh K.

Principal Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/6/2020

"Easiest way to add search to your application"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon CloudSearch?

Easy way to sync data between DynamodDB to Cloud Search

Cloud search console is easy to manage & configure

Different query languages supported Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudSearch?

Cost, it is a little expensive.

Free trial is only one month. I wish they had some sort Free Tier like dynamodb, s3 & others.

Also reindexing takes hell lot of time.

There is no way to disable/deactivate/pause the search subscription. I wish there was a way.

We are a start up (4 friends working full time on other job & trying to build an amazing app on the side), its been under development for last 2 years, i have been paying for the last 2 years, even though the app is not LIVE yet. i wish there was a way to pause subscription instead of deleting the whole index & recreate when needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudSearch:

if you are an AWS user looking for search, easiest way to get search on your app is cloudsearch. Definitely recommend doing this than investing hell lot of dev time in integrating other searches like elastic or Apache Solr Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon CloudSearch solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are a startup (4 friends trying to build an amazing app), we have integrated cloudsearch & trying to have a search on the app to return all the data we have along with filters.

We have triggers & lambda function set up on dynamodb tables, which would automatically sync changes from dynamoDB to cloudsearch.

Easy way to sync data between DynamodDB to Cloud Search.

Cloud search console is easy to manage & configure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ravi D.

Devops Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/15/2019

"Cloud Search is great but feels abandoned by amazon"

3/5

What do you like best about Amazon CloudSearch?

A fully managed search engine where you do not have to worry about scaling, provision, patching. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudSearch?

There have been no updates made in the last 3 years, there has been no blog posts by amazon in the last 3 and half years. Not all instance types are available. Only previous generation instances are available to choose from. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudSearch:

Note that you are going to be using a product that does not have any updates for so long. It is highly scalable and has nice feature set to begin with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon CloudSearch solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being able to search documents. We use it as full text search with facets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/30/2018

"AMAZON CLOUD SEARCH the best ever !!!!!!!"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon CloudSearch?

EVERYTHING ABOUT AMAZON CLOUD SEARCH IS AMAZING. iT IS SUCHA GREAT TOOL FOR YOUR DOMAIN OR DOMAINS. it gives you a bit of relief knowing someone is helping you with your website. Try it out and you will be able to see it for yourself. Friends, family, colleagues and even people you dont know can find your website or wemsites so much easier now that amazon is here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudSearch?

I WISH IT WAS FREE BUT NOT EVERYTHING IN LIKE IS FREE. At least you will get a free trial for a year to test it out. Definitly worth every penny spent with their help. I dont dislike anything about amazon cloud search. I mean what is there not to like bout them. They help you out in so many ways. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudSearch:

go for it they wont let you down. it is great tool to have for your company. i am so glad i went for it. the best thing is you caan try it for free for a year so you can see how it works. amazon will not let you down. I recommend amazon cloud search to anyone out there in need of help with gettting their websites going. Anyone can you it. It is very simple and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon CloudSearch solving and how is that benefiting you?

PEOPLE CAN FIND MY WEBSITE SO MUCH EASIER. It puts me at ease knowing more and more people can now search for my sites simply and easily. Amazon cloud search solves my problem of not being out there for the world to see. I am no longer worried that people wont be able to search or look up my websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Durga Shiva Teja V.

Java Developer

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/18/2018

"My Aws cloud search review"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon CloudSearch?

since everything is becoming cloud these days aws providing a cloud search elevates the search criteria even more and i have seen many companies are using this feature to make thier compaany sigtes searchable internally and externally. The search rate is very fast and the respose is really quick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudSearch?

The amount of time to get to know about the AWS services and this service in particular takes time for beginners, i cannot tell that i disliek that but if you learn the service how it works and how it functions you will love the way this search works Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudSearch:

No recommendations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon CloudSearch solving and how is that benefiting you?

It already provides with a built infrastructure for making your search engine available in your project and you dont have to have seperate physical setup for setting it up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Genny P.

Sales Supervisor

Non-Profit Organization Management

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/31/2018

"Good but Glitchy"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon CloudSearch?

I liked that I was able to access information while on a different device. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudSearch?

There were many times when I was trying to log in where I knew my log in information was correct and the program still would not log me in for hours at a time. It made it extremely difficult to get work done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bianca M.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/7/2018

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"My review "

3.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon CloudSearch?

I like how everything is really organized in the cloud and it’s all together Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudSearch?

How hard is can be to customize settings and to find everything when you’re in a rush Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anuj M.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/25/2018

"amazon cloudsearch is integrate customized service"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon CloudSearch?

its is very good service of aws which manage and scale all search solution and it is very cost effective. It support many languages and very quick search works in this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudSearch?

elasticsearch is better than cloud search and it have some indexing issue. and also have schema and document issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Saad D.

Business Development Manager and Strategic Consultant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/24/2018

"Amazon's CloudSearch- easiest and managed website search implementation solution"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon CloudSearch?

The best part I like about Cloudsearch is that its completely managed by Amazon and is quite effective. It's the best way to add search implementation on your website. Backed by AWS, you know you're getting the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudSearch?

There's not much to dislike here. If you prefer a less managed solution, look elsewhere. Then again, why would you? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.