Amazon AWS CloudSearch Reviews

Name: Amazon AWS CloudSearch
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4.2 (12 reviews)

Vendor: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.2 out of 5

12 reviews
83% willing to recommend

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What is Amazon AWS CloudSearch?

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.

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Amazon AWS CloudSearch is the #7 ranked solution in top Search as a Service vendors. PeerSpot users give Amazon AWS CloudSearch an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. Amazon AWS CloudSearch is most commonly compared to Elastic Search: Amazon AWS CloudSearch vs Elastic Search. Amazon AWS CloudSearch is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 59% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 22% of all views.

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AmrIssa

Chief Information officer at Mobica Advanced

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…

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HarishMahanta

Sr PeopleSoft Consultant at People Tech

In terms of what needs improvement, I would say that it needs to keep its cost competitive in the market, especially in comparison to other clouds. Let's say we have various clouds in the market, like Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and AWS Cloud. However, security-wise, I don't think AWS is bad. It's good only, especially in comparison to Oracle Cloud, if you really use Oracle, while also considering the fact that PeopleSoft is an Oracle product. AWS is a separate cloud, and Oracle has its own cloud. If you are in a new PeopleSoft and Oracle and you are using a third-party cloud, it means it is not easy since we can't think it is easy. I mean, if you are using Oracle products and you are using Oracle Cloud, it will be easier for you. However, it has a cost in comparison to AWS. Oracle Cloud is too costly. According to region, we segregate because it depends on the organization's strength. Let's say your organization has 1,000 customers. In that case, on a daily basis, let's say one customer was released or discontinued using the product. Then, you have to remove the solution. However, if you use Oracle Cloud, that space will remain there. In the case of AWS, they will immediately cut down their space, meaning in terms of reuse ability, it will reduce the cost. In our case, AWS is the best in the market, actually. We have various clouds like Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure Cloud, the features of which are very different. There are a lot of features in AWS Cloud since I am not in the market providing service on the products. I am just using that tool to access our clients' database and deliver our day-to-day service. I interact with the clients regarding their issues, whatever they are facing. There is this one kind of interface we use to access things because they are in AWS Cloud. If your customer is in Oracle Cloud, then there will be a different approach to accessing it. In our case, we can use AWS or Oracle, so it doesn't matter to us.

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Kevin Kaittany

System Administrator at Kenyatta National Hospital

The initial setup is very easy AWS, in general, is very easy to set up, manage, and migrate. It's all very straightforward. I'd rate the ease of implementation ten out of ten. The deployment takes about one year. We went through a few stages over the course of the deployment. We started with procurement. We're a government institution, and it takes about six months to get everything aligned before deploying. We had four people handling the deployment: two from our end and two from the vendor partner. The maintenance requires about four people as well. We maintain the same team for deployment and maintenance.

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Amazon AWS CloudSearch mindshare

As of July 2025, the mindshare of Amazon AWS CloudSearch in the Search as a Service category stands at 8.5%, down from 10.6% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerResearch reports based on Amazon AWS CloudSearch reviews

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Valuable Features

"It is remarkably efficient and beneficial."
"It will remain alive in the market. The solution will be stable in the market."
"I've found the solution to be very scalable."

Room for Improvement

"A reboot should be enhanced."
"I would say that it needs to keep its cost competitive in the market, especially in comparison to other clouds."
"We'd like to see more database features."

Pricing

"In comparison to IBM and Microsoft, the pricing is more favorable."
"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."

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Computer Software Company

22%

Financial Services Firm

16%

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