Amazon AWS CloudSearch Reviews

We have multiple teams in our organization that use the solution.

There are plenty of services from the database. There are many features that are valuable.

Scalability and agility are good.

The pricing is okay.

The quality of the solution is good.

The solution delivers well on optimization.

In terms of customization, it's quite good and can work with any other cloud platforms.

I don't have a deep knowledge of the solution and its compatibility, so I don't know if I can speak to what might be lacking.

Scalability and agility could be improved slightly, even though we find them good right now.

The solution should improve the recovery aspects that it has on offer.

I've been using the solution for two to three years now.

We also use Azure.

Since my role is restricted to security protocols, I don't have too much information on the deployment and implementation of this solution.

The solution is very cost-effective.

My role and responsibility is to check the services of the security platform in question to see if it fits the requirements. For example, there are members of our team who are looking to leverage some services from the public cloud, I just look at their business requirements and see what services they want to leverage on a solution.

Physically if there is something that is lacking in security that I can foresee, I explain the best practices to follow to enable additional security controls. This may be making stronger authentications, authorizations, or having stronger data security and encryption. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

Depending on an organization's requirements and budgets, cloud services would be recommended. A user must just decide what they need and stick to one thing.

I mainly use AWS CloudSearch for cluster-based AWS, EC2 services, cloud-front services, and Amazon Kubernetes services.

AWS CloudSearch's best features are good performance under high CPU and memory use, and ease of deployment and scaling.

AWS CloudSearch's documentation isn't very clear. Also, the on-premise version of the solution is less stable than the cloud version. In the next release, I'd like AWS CloudSearch to include a Python-based library improvement to communicate with other services and support for more languages.

I've been using AWS CloudSearch for about two years.

The cloud version of AWS CloudSearch is the most stable.

AWS CloudSearch is easy to scale.

Amazon's technical support needs to improve as they only solve about half our problems. 

Negative

AWS CloudSearch is easy to deploy.

We used an in-house team.

Our license costs around $4,000 per month.

We're switching to Microsoft Azure because customers in Europe prefer it due to their GDPR laws. I would rate AWS CloudSearch three out of ten.

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

• Document indexing
• Text-based search API
• Geospatial searches

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.

No issues with stability.

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.

This was the first implementation, we did not switch from any other product.

No setup required, as it is on cloud.

I was not involved with pricing and licensing, I was only involved in implementation.

I would suggest looking at Elasticsearch. I am currently using it and I feel it is more flexible and easy to use.

The best feature is its scalability in that Cloud is always on the fly. You can scale your requirements on the fly. Cloud also has other features but scalability comes first. This is one of the best features.

I think AWS is doing a good job. I don't think it needs much improvement. Security is a concern but they're working on it. I am not saying there is no security, but maybe they can bring in more controls.

I've been using AWS CloudSearch for three months.

The stability of the product is good.

As I mentioned, its scalability is its best feature.

We had a team of 15 - 20 people using it.

In terms of support, it's good - it's a market leader. Most of the issues are documented, so you really don't need support except for out of the ordinary stuff.

The initial setup is simple.

I'd definitely recommend Amazon AWS CloudSearch. On a scale of one to ten I'd rate it an eight.