Compare Amazon AWS CloudSearch vs. Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Amazon AWS CloudSearch is ranked 4th in Search as a Service with 2 reviews while Amazon Elasticsearch Service is ranked 5th in Search as a Service with 1 review. Amazon AWS CloudSearch is rated 8.6, while Amazon Elasticsearch Service is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS CloudSearch writes "CDN service reduces latency when accessing our web application". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon Elasticsearch Service writes "The initial set up is very easy. It gives us the charges according to the use cases. ". Amazon AWS CloudSearch is most compared with Algolia, Amazon Elasticsearch Service and Solr, whereas Amazon Elasticsearch Service is most compared with Amazon AWS CloudSearch and Algolia.

Amazon AWS CloudSearch

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Amazon AWS CloudSearch

Read 2 Amazon AWS CloudSearch reviews.

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Most Helpful Review

Sunit Chatterjee

Senior Technical Lead at a tech services company

Text-based search API and geospatial searches are valuable but index cleanup can be painful

We were able to build the core search functionality using this product.

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Pros
CDN service reduces latency when accessing our web application.Document indexing, text-based search API, and Geospatial searches are all good features. Read more »	The stability of the product is good.The initial set up is very easy...We really appreciate Amazon!They have the good documentation in the help text and that is the reason the Amazon is the perfect solution in the current market. Read more »
Cons
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.Latlon data type only supports single value per document. All other types support multiple values. We faced issues with this because we had scenarios where, for each document, we needed to store multiple latlon values for different geographical locations.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. Read more »	There is a problem with the database. Amazon only provides the hosting to run our applications bias, but there is no option to manage the database within the Elasticsearch product. Read more »

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Information Not Available	You only pay for what you use. Read more »

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4th out of 10 in Search as a Service Views 1,288 Comparisons 1,025 Reviews 2 Average Words per Review 274 Avg. Rating 8.5	5th out of 10 in Search as a Service Views 342 Comparisons 169 Reviews 1 Average Words per Review 466 Avg. Rating 9.0
Top Comparisons
Algolia vs. Amazon AWS CloudSearch Compared 24% of the time. Amazon Elasticsearch Service vs. Amazon AWS CloudSearch Compared 20% of the time. Solr vs. Amazon AWS CloudSearch Compared 20% of the time. See more Amazon AWS CloudSearch competitors » + Add more products to compare	Amazon AWS CloudSearch vs. Amazon Elasticsearch Service Compared 74% of the time. Algolia vs. Amazon Elasticsearch Service Compared 26% of the time. See more Amazon Elasticsearch Service competitors » + Add more products to compare
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Overview
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 supports 34 languages and popular search features such as highlighting, autocomplete, and geospatial search. With Amazon CloudSearch, you can quickly add rich search capabilities to your website or application. You don't need to become a search expert or worry about hardware provisioning, setup, and maintenance. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can create a search domain and upload the data that you want to make searchable, and Amazon CloudSearch will automatically provision the required resources and deploy a highly tuned search index. You can easily change your search parameters, fine tune search relevance, and apply new settings at any time. As your volume of data and traffic fluctuates, Amazon CloudSearch seamlessly scales to meet your needs.	Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch clusters in the AWS Cloud.
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