--- title: Amazon CloudSearch Reviews meta_title: 'Amazon CloudSearch Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 15 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Amazon CloudSearch works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.0 review_count: 15 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: Analytics Tools & Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-tools-software --- # Amazon CloudSearch Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Enterprise Search Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/enterprise-search-software) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 15 ## About Amazon CloudSearch 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. ## Amazon CloudSearch Reviews ### 1. Amazon CloudSearch - Must have for better outputs and quick turnaround **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudSearch?** Automatically scales with the demands of your application or website. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudSearch?** Time consumed to Create and configuring a search domain **What problems is Amazon CloudSearch solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1) Search results in JSON or XML 2) Configure indexing options 3) sort, filter, and paginate search results. ### 2. Amazing tool for providing site find and search, customers love it! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darren L. | sr director of marketing, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudSearch?** Was very easy to implement, great customer service. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudSearch?** Not much, found it very successful, perhaps needed more reading than anticipated. **What problems is Amazon CloudSearch solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowing our customer base with smart phones to get information on getting more minutes and top up. ### 3. Easiest way to add search to your application **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rakesh K. | Principal Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2020 **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 **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 **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 **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 ### 4. Cloud Search is great but feels abandoned by amazon **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi D. | Devops Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudSearch?** A fully managed search engine where you do not have to worry about scaling, provision, patching. **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. **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. **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. ### 5. AMAZON CLOUD SEARCH the best ever !!!!!!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2018 **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. **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. **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. **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. ### 6. My Aws cloud search review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Durga Shiva Teja V. | Java Developer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2018 **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. **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 **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudSearch:** No recommendations **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. ### 7. Good but Glitchy **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Genny P. | Sales Supervisor, Non-Profit Organization Management, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudSearch?** I liked that I was able to access information while on a different device. **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. **What problems is Amazon CloudSearch solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy access to information when not located at the home office. ### 8. My review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bianca M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudSearch?** I like how everything is really organized in the cloud and it’s all together **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 **What problems is Amazon CloudSearch solving and how is that benefiting you?** solving problems and figuring out all the orders with prime and making sure they’re right ### 9. amazon cloudsearch is integrate customized service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anuj M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **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. **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 **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudSearch:** very useful and good managed service of aws to resolve search services of web and application **What problems is Amazon CloudSearch solving and how is that benefiting you?** very fast to use and it solve search issue of our applications and web services. ### 10. Amazon's CloudSearch- easiest and managed website search implementation solution **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saad D. | Business Development Manager and Strategic Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2018 **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. **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? **What problems is Amazon CloudSearch solving and how is that benefiting you?** clients hosting websites on AWS can get the advantage of the cloud along with Amazon managing everything. ### 11. Good, but not worth the cost **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Helen J. | Manager, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudSearch?** Makes searching on our website simple, fast & convenient for our customers. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudSearch?** The cost of using amazon cloud search is not worth the money we were out vs. incoming sales & profit. We switched to a free cloud and had no drop in sales. **What problems is Amazon CloudSearch solving and how is that benefiting you?** It simplified searching exactly what the customer wanted. Was a quick and easy set up took less than an hour ### 12. Google is better **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Cosmetics | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudSearch?** Pulls several customized searches at once, easy to use and is free. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudSearch?** Google in my opinion has a mich more broad search and pulls info and data from more platforms and websites, but all on all not bad when it's free. **What problems is Amazon CloudSearch solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps customer's find exactly what they are looking for whether it be by size, price, color or ratings. Again not too bad when it's free. ### 13. AWS Cloudsearch **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudSearch?** Easy to use can get up and running quickly **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudSearch?** Lots of limitation. Mainly allowing only one document or index per domain. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudSearch:** I think amazon should focus on elastic search service rather than building similar product. **What problems is Amazon CloudSearch solving and how is that benefiting you?** Searching our events inventory ### 14. Versatile **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudSearch?** Very dynamic features for setting up your search functions **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudSearch?** Some essential feautures are limited, such as suggested searches **What problems is Amazon CloudSearch solving and how is that benefiting you?** Main benefit is being able to control search results by ranking to make searchablity easier for what I want ### 15. Simple and Easy to use with low cost. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ganesh T. | Software Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudSearch?** Single place to manage all my process. Easy to get report. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudSearch?** Some additional charges for routing my server. **What problems is Amazon CloudSearch solving and how is that benefiting you?** It reduces my cost for spending in server hosting. 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