We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS CloudSearch and Azure Search 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."CDN service reduces latency when accessing our web application."
"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 the cloud aspect. I do not need to have the physical infrastructure, everything is in the cloud."
"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."
"The quality of the solution is good."
"I've found the solution to be very scalable."
"Because all communication is done via the REST API, data is retrieved quickly in JSON format to reduce overhead and latency."
"The customer engagement was good."
"Creates indexers to get data from different data sources."
"The amount of flexibility and agility is really assuring."
"The product is pretty resilient."
"The search functionality time has been reduced to a few milliseconds."
"The solution's initial setup is straightforward."
"It provides good access capabilities to various platforms."
"I would say that it needs to keep its cost competitive in the market, especially in comparison to other clouds."
"Amazon AWS CloudSearch is highly stable. However, the speed depends on your internet connection."
"Maybe they are common in Egypt, but you should make a request on Amazon to create a function to monitor CPU performance, memory, and files. It is very difficult in AWS. I would tell them it should be simple, just drag and drop. I think they could develop this option so we can drag and drop to monitor performance of the processor and memory."
"The price of the solution can be expensive."
"The solution should improve the recovery aspects that it has on offer."
"A reboot should be enhanced."
"Security is a concern but they're working on it."
"I do not have any suggestions for improvements at this time."
"For availability, expanding its use to all Azure datacenters would be helpful in increasing awareness and usage of the product."
"Adding items to Azure Search using its .NET APIs sometimes throws exceptions."
"For SDKs, Azure Search currently offers solutions for .NET and Python. Additional platforms would be welcomed, especially native iOS and Android solutions for mobile development."
"It would be good if the site found a better way to filter things based on subscription."
"They should add an API for third-party vendors, like a security operating center or reporting system, that would be a big improvement."
"The pricing is room for improvement."
"The solution's stability could be better."
"The after-hour services are slow."
Amazon AWS CloudSearch is ranked 5th in Search as a Service with 12 reviews while Azure Search is ranked 6th in Search as a Service with 8 reviews. Amazon AWS CloudSearch is rated 8.4, while Azure Search is rated 7.4. 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 Azure Search writes "Good performance for standard faceted search and full-text search". Amazon AWS CloudSearch is most compared with Solr, Amazon Kendra, Algolia, Amazon Athena and Amazon Elasticsearch Service, whereas Azure Search is most compared with Amazon Kendra, Elastic Search, Amazon Athena, Solr and Algolia. See our Amazon AWS CloudSearch vs. Azure Search report.
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