2. What is Amazon CloudSearch?
Architecture
Pricing
Getting Started
Feature Overview
3. What Is Amazon CloudSearch?
Fully-managed, full featured search service in the cloud
Up and running in less than 1 hour
Automatically scales for data & traffic
Support for both structured and unstructured data
No upfront costs or commitments
Pay-as-you-go pricing model
4. 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
5. Automatic Scaling
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
6. Pricing Model
1. Search Instance Types* Full-featured search engine,
Search Instance Type Cost per hour starting at:
Small $0.12 < $100/month
Large $0.48
XLarge $0.68
2. Document Upload Charge
$0.10 per 1,000 batch uploads
* Prices shown for US East region only.
1 batch has 5 MB limit
Throughout 2012 we will be launching in
3. Re-Index Charge additional regions.
$0.98 per GB of data in Search Domain
7. Amazon CloudSearch Benefits
No Up-Front Pay Only for
Capital Expense Low Cost What You Use
Self-Service Easily Scale Up Improve Agility &
Infrastructure and Down Time to Market
Deploy
8. Featured Customers
News content usage & licensing Auto enthusiast social network
“Amazon CloudSearch lets us “When we heard that Amazon
use search as a service, and CloudSearch would only take an
allows our technical hour to get running we were
resources to focus on more skeptical, but with a few menu
important value-add clicks and a keystrokes we were
development.” Photo Sharing ready to roll.”
“We saved many months of re-
architecture and development
time by going with Amazon
CloudSearch.”
Medical Research
Social music sharing
“We have been impressed with the
“Amazon CloudSearch
power and flexibility of
provides us with a fast,
CloudSearch, and how quickly we
scalable search platform that
were able to use it to get a new
just works.”
search system up and running.”
10. Feature Overview
Free text, structured data, Easy to set up and use
Boolean search • HTTP endpoints
Customizable relevance ranking • Configuration
Faceting • Document upload
Fielded and Range search • Search
Alphabetic or numeric sorting • Web console
Text Processing Options • Command Line Tools
Near real-time updates • APIs
11. Search Features In Action
Relevance/Ranking
Tokenization
Faceting
Range Searching
Fielded Searching
Complex relevance
12. Search Features In Action
Relevance/Ranking
Tokenization
Faceting
Range Searching
Fielded Searching
Complex relevance
13. Search Features In Action
Relevance/Ranking
Tokenization
Faceting
Range Searching
Fielded Searching
Complex relevance
14. Search Features In Action
Relevance/Ranking
Tokenization
Faceting
Range Searching
Fielded Searching
Complex relevance
15. Search Features In Action
Relevance/Ranking
Tokenization
Faceting
Range Searching
Price/Age
Fielded Searching
Complex relevance
16. Search Features In Action
Relevance/Ranking
Tokenization
Faceting
Range Searching
Fielded Searching
Department
Complex relevance
17. Search Features in Action
Relevance/Ranking
Tokenization
Faceting
Range-Searching
Fielded Searching
Complex relevance
User reviews
User behavior
Modern Search is so much more.Many people keep data in databases but they are slow (think about flipping through a catalog)Search is fast, but it takes a lot of technology to make it so
Modern Search is so much more.Many people keep data in databases but they are slow (think about flipping through a catalog)Search is fast, but it takes a lot of technology to make it so
Modern Search is so much more.Many people keep data in databases but they are slow (think about flipping through a catalog)Search is fast, but it takes a lot of technology to make it so
Modern Search is so much more.Many people keep data in databases but they are slow (think about flipping through a catalog)Search is fast, but it takes a lot of technology to make it so
Modern Search is so much more.Many people keep data in databases but they are slow (think about flipping through a catalog)Search is fast, but it takes a lot of technology to make it so
Modern Search is so much more.Many people keep data in databases but they are slow (think about flipping through a catalog)Search is fast, but it takes a lot of technology to make it so
Modern Search is so much more.Many people keep data in databases but they are slow (think about flipping through a catalog)Search is fast, but it takes a lot of technology to make it so