Overview of Amazon CloudSearch, features, Architecture and Pricing

What is 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 has the following benefits

1. Simple – Easy to configure, manage and configure domains indexing.
2. Scalable – Amazon CloudSearch offers powerful autoscaling for all search domains. As your data or query volume changes, Amazon CloudSearch can scale your search domain’s resources up or down as needed. 
3. Reliable – Amazon CloudSearch provides automatic monitoring and recovery for your search domains. When Multi-AZ is enabled, Amazon CloudSearch provisions and maintains resources for a search domain in two Availability Zones to ensure high availability. 
4. Rich Search Features – Free text, Boolean, and Faceted search , Geospatial search, Autocomplete suggestions
5. Cost-Effective – Amazon CloudSearch is designed to be cost-effective. You pay low hourly rates, and only for the resources you use. 

Amazon CloudSearch Architecture

Following is the architecture of Amazon CloudSearch

You interact with Amazon CloudSearch through three services:

• Configuration service—create and configure search domains
• Document service—upload document batches
• Search service—submit search and suggestion requests

1. You create an Amazon CloudSearch search domain for each collection of data that you want to make searchable.
2. Each search domain has one or more search instances. A search instance is a server instance that has a finite amount of RAM and CPU resources for indexing data and processing requests.
3. By default Amazon CloudSearch uses a Small search instance type. As the amount of data in your search index grows, Amazon CloudSearch automatically scales your search domain as needed.
4. Amazon CloudSearch also automatically scales to handle increases in the amount of search traffic. When a search instance nears its maximum query load, CloudSearch deploys a replica of the search instance.

Amazon CloudSearch Pricing

Pay only for what you use. There are no set-up fees or upfront commitments to begin using Amazon CloudSearch. For more information on Amazon CloudSearch Pricing , refer to our post – http://www.cloudinfonow.com/amazon-cloudsearch-pricing/