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  • "We chose AWS because of its cost and stability."
  • "There was no license needed to use this solution."
  • "Amazon AWS CloudSearch charging is based on how many resources you consume or and the solution is known to be a bit expensive."
  • "Our license costs around $4,000 per month."
  • "I'm not sure how much we pay a year. It might be around $30,000 a year."
  • "On a scale of one to ten, where one point is cheap, and ten points are expensive, I rate the pricing as medium or reasonable."
  • "In comparison to IBM and Microsoft, the pricing is more favorable."
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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.

    Swiftype Site Search:

    A fast, flexible search solution that helps you surface your website’s most relevant content to your audience, customers or users. Swiftype connects your users to the right content.

    Swiftype App Search:

    Get access to a set of robust APIs and unprecedented relevance controls to deliver amazing search experiences, all backed by the Elastic Stack. Swiftype makes it easy to build a world-class search experience.

    Sample Customers
    SmugMug
    Asana, BulbAmerica, DramaFever, Engadget, Instructables, Shopify, TechCrunch, Twilio, UPS Battery Center, Harvard Law Review, Mapbox, Qualcomm, Shoppers Drug Mart, Signature Hardware, Twitch
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    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    Insurance Company6%
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    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise50%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    Amazon AWS CloudSearch is ranked 5th in Search as a Service with 12 reviews while Swiftype [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Search as a Service. Amazon AWS CloudSearch is rated 8.4, while Swiftype [EOL] is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS CloudSearch writes "A reasonably priced solution that provides scalability, stability, reliability, and security". On the other hand, Amazon AWS CloudSearch is most compared with Solr, Amazon Kendra, Algolia, Amazon Athena and Elastic Search, whereas Swiftype [EOL] is most compared with .

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