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Amazon AWS CloudSearch vs Amazon Elasticsearch Service comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon AWS CloudSearch
Ranking in Search as a Service
5th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Ranking in Search as a Service
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Search as a Service category, the mindshare of Amazon AWS CloudSearch is 10.7%, down from 12.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Amazon Elasticsearch Service is 13.2%, down from 19.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

AmrIssa - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 11, 2023
A scalable and fully managed search service with diverse data type support and robust security
We use it as our hosting solution, serving as the backbone for our systems, which include Rubrik and SAP It is remarkably efficient and beneficial. A reboot should be enhanced. There are issues with the VBC collection. I have been working with it for four years. I would rate the stability ten…
Beverly R. Jamison - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 8, 2023
Easy to use, efficient, and straightforward installation
Amazon Elasticsearch is a search engine. We set up the index from where the content was and moved the content in to get it indexed. We provided the end user with a fairly full-featured search, and they were included in being able to write their own bullion The most valuable features of Amazon…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"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 most valuable feature of Amazon AWS CloudSearch is its ability to receive data quickly. You can access your data easily in a short time."
"The best feature is its scalability in that Cloud is always on the fly."
"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."
"It will remain alive in the market. The solution will be stable in the market."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It's a good log management platform. In terms of infrastructure management, it's good."
"They have the good documentation in the help text and that is the reason the Amazon is the perfect solution in the current market."
"It enables us to efficiently search and retrieve our event data, offering us a versatile approach to locate specific information within these logs."
"The stability of the product is good."
"The initial set up is very easy...We really appreciate Amazon!"
"In case there is a failure, Elastic manages everything well, and there no major downtime."
"The most valuable features of Amazon Elasticsearch are ease of use, native JSON, and efficiency. Additionally, handles many use cases and search grammar was useful."
"Regarding valuable features of the solution, we found with the process, which we have used in both cases where we used the solution that while you're seeing the streaming of data, you can analyze in the initial phase what sort of data you are streaming and whether it is valuable."
 

Cons

"Security is a concern but they're working on it."
"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."
"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."
"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 do not have any suggestions for improvements at this time."
"Amazon AWS CloudSearch is highly stable. However, the speed depends on your internet connection."
"The price of the solution can be expensive."
"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."
"Amazon Elasticsearch can improve the bullion in the near search and the ease of integration with Kibana. Additionally, there could be more flexibility in the configuration and documentation."
"The configuration should be more straightforward because we had to select a lot of things."
"One glaring issue was with our mapping configuration as the system accepted the data we posted, but after a few months, when we attempted complex queries, we realized the date formatting had become problematic."
"I would say that, basically, the configuration part is an area with a shortcoming...Some upgradation is required on the configuration side so that we can get to use it."
"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."
"I want to see a new feature in Amazon Elasticsearch Service that allows users to create default filters for filtered levels."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"I'm not sure how much we pay a year. It might be around $30,000 a year."
"In comparison to IBM and Microsoft, the pricing is more favorable."
"There was no license needed to use this solution."
"Our license costs around $4,000 per month."
"Amazon AWS CloudSearch charging is based on how many resources you consume or and the solution is known to be a bit expensive."
"We chose AWS because of its cost and stability."
"The solution is not expensive, but priced averagely, I will say."
"Compared to other cloud platforms, it is manageable and not very expensive."
"You only pay for what you use."
"There is a community edition available and the price of the commercial offering is reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Insurance Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon AWS CloudSearch?
In comparison to IBM and Microsoft, the pricing is more favorable. I would rate it eight out of ten.
What needs improvement with Amazon AWS CloudSearch?
A reboot should be enhanced. There are issues with the VBC collection.
What do you like most about Amazon Elasticsearch Service?
It enables us to efficiently search and retrieve our event data, offering us a versatile approach to locate specific information within these logs.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Elasticsearch Service?
The solution is not expensive, but priced averagely, I will say. Regarding the pricing part based on the use cases, we used to sometimes see or do some of the costing parts also in that case. Depar...
What needs improvement with Amazon Elasticsearch Service?
One glaring issue was with our mapping configuration as the system accepted the data we posted, but after a few months, when we attempted complex queries, we realized the date formatting had become...
 

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Sample Customers

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