We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS CloudSearch and Azure Search based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Search as a Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"AWS CloudSearch's best features are good performance under high CPU and memory use, and ease of deployment and scaling."
"It is remarkably efficient and beneficial."
"The quality of the solution is good."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Document indexing, text-based search API, and Geospatial searches are all good features."
"I've found the solution to be very scalable."
"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 solution's initial setup is straightforward."
"The product is extremely configurable, allowing you to customize the search experience to suit your needs."
"Creates indexers to get data from different data sources."
"The search functionality time has been reduced to a few milliseconds."
"The amount of flexibility and agility is really assuring."
"Azure Search is well-documented, making it easy to understand and implement."
"Because all communication is done via the REST API, data is retrieved quickly in JSON format to reduce overhead and latency."
"It provides good access capabilities to various platforms."
"We'd like to see more database features."
"The price of the solution can be expensive."
"I do not have any suggestions for improvements at this time."
"A reboot should be enhanced."
"Security is a concern but they're working on it."
"The solution should improve the recovery aspects that it has on offer."
"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."
"AWS CloudSearch's documentation isn't very clear. Also, the on-premise version of the solution is less stable than the cloud version."
"The solution's stability could be better."
"They should add an API for third-party vendors, like a security operating center or reporting system, that would be a big improvement."
"Adding items to Azure Search using its .NET APIs sometimes throws exceptions."
"For SDKs, Azure Search currently offers solutions for .NET and Python. Additional platforms would be welcomed, especially native iOS and Android solutions for mobile development."
"It would be good if the site found a better way to filter things based on subscription."
"The after-hour services are slow."
"The initial setup is not as easy as it should be."
"For availability, expanding its use to all Azure datacenters would be helpful in increasing awareness and usage of the product."
Amazon AWS CloudSearch is ranked 5th in Search as a Service with 12 reviews while Azure Search is ranked 6th in Search as a Service with 8 reviews. Amazon AWS CloudSearch is rated 8.4, while Azure Search is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS CloudSearch writes "A reasonably priced solution that provides scalability, stability, reliability, and security". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Search writes "Good performance for standard faceted search and full-text search". Amazon AWS CloudSearch is most compared with Solr, Amazon Kendra, Algolia, Amazon Athena and Amazon Elasticsearch Service, whereas Azure Search is most compared with Amazon Kendra, Elastic Search, Amazon Athena, Solr and Algolia. See our Amazon AWS CloudSearch vs. Azure Search report.
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