Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month
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Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month
#2You know this doesn't seem like a bad deal though $100/mo might be high for someone just starting out. Right now my options for search are:
Full text SQL search
Apache Solr or something similar
Google Search Appliance
Custom search
Google free search on your site
Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month
#3looks like some people would want help in converting document X into a - "JSON or XML that conforms to our Search Document Format (SDF)"
This is still going to be a painfull task for legacy data - it has to be massaged into shape. Should be interesting to see how this gets applied though.
Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month
#4Feeling for the guys who started IndexTank replacements and other Search-aaS companies. Infrastructure is a poor place to be with AWS around. Just a matter of time until they offer every low level service.
Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month
#5anyone know what it is underneath the covers? elasticsearch?
Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month
#6It would be interesting to see how this performs, compared to running Lucene, Solr, Sphinx, or what-have-you on an EC2 instance with equal resources.
Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month
#7You know this doesn't seem like a bad deal though $100/mo might be high for someone just starting out. Right now my options for search are: Full text SQL search Apache Solr or something similar Google Search Appliance Custom search Google free search on your site Yay for search as a service.
Yeah, there's a side project I've been wanting to build for a long time, and it needs search. But the way these prices have been presented, it seems that CloudSearch is just not economically feasible for a SaaS / free multiuser offering.
Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month
#8looks like some people would want help in converting document X into a - "JSON or XML that conforms to our Search Document Format (SDF)" This is still going to be a painfull task for legacy data - it has to be massaged into shape. Should be interesting to see how this gets applied though.
Why in the world would transforming your structured data into XML or JSON be a painful task? Essentially every application built is massaging data from one format to another, this being one of more straight-forward transformations. Is building an RSS feed hard? Seems about the same level of difficulty.
Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month
#9You know this doesn't seem like a bad deal though $100/mo might be high for someone just starting out. Right now my options for search are: Full text SQL search Apache Solr or something similar Google Search Appliance Custom search Google free search on your site Yay for search as a service.
Yes, but the billing is hourly based as usual:
You'll be billed based on the number of running search instances. There are three search instance sizes (Small, Large, and Extra Large) at prices ranging from $0.12 to $0.68 per hour (these are US East Region prices, since that's where we are launching CloudSearch).
PS It looks like it's initially available only in US East Region
Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month
#10anyone know what it is underneath the covers? elasticsearch?
It says it is based on the same search that powers Amazon.com, so presumably it is A9: http://a9.com/