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Amazon AWS CloudSearch vs Amazon Elasticsearch Service comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Amazon AWS CloudSearch
Ranking in Search as a Service
7th
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
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Search as a Service category, the mindshare of Amazon AWS CloudSearch is 8.5%, down from 10.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Amazon Elasticsearch Service is 6.2%, down from 17.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

AmrIssa - PeerSpot reviewer
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
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."
"It will remain alive in the market. The solution will be stable in the market."
"I've found the solution to be very scalable."
"The best feature is its scalability in that Cloud is always on the fly."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The quality of the solution is good."
"CDN service reduces latency when accessing our web application."
"It is remarkably efficient and beneficial."
"It's a good log management platform. In terms of infrastructure management, it's good."
"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."
"The initial set up is very easy...We really appreciate Amazon!"
"The stability of the product is good."
"In case there is a failure, Elastic manages everything well, and there no major downtime."
"It enables us to efficiently search and retrieve our event data, offering us a versatile approach to locate specific information within these logs."
"They have the good documentation in the help text and that is the reason the Amazon is the perfect solution in the current market."
"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

"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."
"The price of the solution can be expensive."
"A reboot should be enhanced."
"Amazon AWS CloudSearch is highly stable. However, the speed depends on your internet connection."
"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."
"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."
"I do not have any suggestions for improvements at this time."
"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."
"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."
"The configuration should be more straightforward because we had to select a lot of things."
"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."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
22%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
8%
University
7%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
 

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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 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...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Elasticsearch Service?
We use it to store and search for events that occur within our application, rather than traditional application logs.
 

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Sample Customers

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