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."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."
"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."
"It will remain alive in the market. The solution will be stable in the market."
"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."
"AWS CloudSearch's best features are good performance under high CPU and memory use, and ease of deployment and scaling."
"The quality of the solution is good."
"I've found the solution to be very scalable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"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."
"I do not have any suggestions for improvements at this time."
"Regarding the period of propagation on CDN servers, sometimes we update photos or files and we don't see the update instantly. We need to wait for sometime."
"I would say that it needs to keep its cost competitive in the market, especially in comparison to other clouds."
"AWS CloudSearch's documentation isn't very clear. Also, the on-premise version of the solution is less stable than the cloud version."
"Amazon AWS CloudSearch is highly stable. However, the speed depends on your internet connection."
"Security is a concern but they're working on it."
"We'd like to see more database features."
"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."
"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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