We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS CloudSearch and Amazon Kendra based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Search as a Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is remarkably efficient and beneficial."
"I've found the solution to be very scalable."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon AWS CloudSearch is the cloud aspect. I do not need to have the physical infrastructure, everything is in the cloud."
"It's the best solution for any company. It has a hosting ERP system for any task. AWS is stable. AWS is more flexible and its elastic concept is a new concept. AWS is also very secure. It has many layers of security, like hardware security and software security. This is a big issue."
"AWS CloudSearch's best features are good performance under high CPU and memory use, and ease of deployment and scaling."
"The best feature is its scalability in that Cloud is always on the fly."
"It will remain alive in the market. The solution will be stable in the market."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon AWS CloudSearch is its ability to receive data quickly. You can access your data easily in a short time."
"Provides flexibility to tune the relevance and ranking of results."
"We have good use cases where stability is everything. So it's a stable solution."
"The price of the solution can be expensive."
"Security is a concern but they're working on it."
"A reboot should be enhanced."
"I would say that it needs to keep its cost competitive in the market, especially in comparison to other clouds."
"Index cleanup is sometimes painful. No easy way to clean indexes or a bulk of documents. Full indexing or regeneration of entire indexes sometimes gets stuck. In one instance, we had to delete the entire index and re-create it."
"The solution should improve the recovery aspects that it has on offer."
"Amazon AWS CloudSearch is highly stable. However, the speed depends on your internet connection."
"AWS CloudSearch's documentation isn't very clear. Also, the on-premise version of the solution is less stable than the cloud version."
"There are some token limits."
"The time it takes for indexing documents could be reduced."
Amazon AWS CloudSearch is ranked 5th in Search as a Service with 12 reviews while Amazon Kendra is ranked 2nd in Search as a Service with 2 reviews. Amazon AWS CloudSearch is rated 8.4, while Amazon Kendra is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS CloudSearch writes "A reasonably priced solution that provides scalability, stability, reliability, and security". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon Kendra writes "Kendra has a nice AI built-in, enhancing the search experience and highly stable solution". Amazon AWS CloudSearch is most compared with Solr, Algolia, Amazon Athena, Elastic Search and Azure Search, whereas Amazon Kendra is most compared with Azure Search, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Elastic Search, Algolia and Solr. See our Amazon AWS CloudSearch vs. Amazon Kendra report.
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