In our last update we introduced Amazon CloudSearch. In this talk we're take it to the next level with a deep-dive on the service from the Amazon A9 team themselves. Hear the background on CloudSearch, as well as new features, new use cases, and new ways to access CloudSearch, and get to meet and question the team behind the service.

1. Amazon Web Services Update | London
November 2012

2. Amazon CloudSearch
Puneet Gupta
Sr. Director, CloudSearch

3. Agenda
CloudSearch Overview
Features and Benefits
Create a Search Domain
New Features and Updates
Product Roadmap
Resources

4. Amazon CloudSearch
Launched – April, 2012
Fully-managed, full-featured search service
Support for both structured and unstructured data
Near real-time indexing
Automatically scales for data & traffic

5. Full featured Search Engine
Relevance & Ranking
Free Text & Boolean Search
Fielded
Facets

6. Amazon CloudSearch Architecture
SEARCH CLIENT SEARCH DEVELOPER
www.example.com
Send
Search
Requests
Use the Search Send Create and
Search Tester Documents Manage Domains
Results
SEARCH ENDPOINT DOCUMENT SERVICE ENDPOINT CONFIGURATION SERVICE ENDPOINT
Document Command Configuration Command Console
Search API Console Console
Service API Line Tools API Line Tools
ACCESS CONTROL ACCESS CONTROL ACCESS CONTROL
SEARCH SERVICE DOCUMENT SERVICE CONFIGURATION SERVICE
Search Documents Add Documents Create Domains
Update Documents Configure Domains
Delete Documents Delete Domains

7. Getting Started
3 easy steps
• Create and Configure
Search Domain
• Upload documents
• Send queries

8. Configure Search Domain
Configuration
Field types: text, literal, uint
Options: search, facet, result

9. Upload Documents
Console (good for small data sets)
Command Line
• cs-post-sdf --source <file> [other options]
• curl -d @<file> [other options]
Direct-to-API
• http://<endpoint>/2011-02-01/documents/batch

10. Search Integration
Console
Full text search
Text relevance
Facets

11. CloudSearch background…

12. +
Innovations in Innovations in
Search Cloud Computing

13. Automatic Scaling: Data & Traffic
DATA
Document Quantity and Size
SEARCH INSTANCE
Index Partition 1
Copy 1
SEARCH INSTANCE SEARCH INSTANCE SEARCH INSTANCE
Index Partition 1 Index Partition 2 Index Partition n
Copy 1 Copy 1 Copy 1
TRAFFIC
Search
Request
Volume and SEARCH INSTANCE SEARCH INSTANCE SEARCH INSTANCE
Complexity Index Partition 1 Index Partition 2 Index Partition n
Copy 2 Copy 2 Copy 2
SEARCH INSTANCE SEARCH INSTANCE SEARCH INSTANCE
Index Partition 1 Index Partition 2 Index Partition n
Copy n Copy n Copy n

14. New Features and Updates

15. New Features
Field Weighting
• Field weighting prioritizes results from certain fields to improve
document ranking
Query Time Rank Expressions
• Query time rank expressions enable you to personalize search
results by customizing ranking for each search request

16. Price Drop
17% - 19% price drop
Instance Type Old Price New Price
Small $0.12 $0.10
Large $0.48 $0.39
Extra Large $0.68 $0.55
price per instance hour

17. 30 Day Free Trial
750 free instance hours of CloudSearch
10,000 document batch uploads (each batch with max. size of 5 MB)
10 IndexDocuments requests

18. What’s next…

19. Roadmap Feature Requests
Multi-AZ Support
Additional AWS Regions
Support large (10B+ documents)
Analytics
UI Widgets
Crawler
Tighter Integration with AWS Storage Services

20. Resources
Detail Page – http://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch
Sample Videos
Documentation
FAQs
Community Forum
Amazon CloudSearch Solution Architects
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21. Thank you
Puneet Gupta
Sr. Director, CloudSearch
puneetg@amazon.com
csbd@amazon.com
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