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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

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Post by Ecio78 »

zackattack wrote: post #7
jtchang wrote: post #2

You 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.

I'm in the same situation, and I'm thinkin about using Solr in a vps or trying one of those hosted cloud solr solutions

Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

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Post by mryan »

cbg0 wrote: post #6

It 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.

This could replace SOLR for one of my sites - I'll need to do some benchmarks to compare them when deciding if it makes sense to move. If so, I can probably post CloudSearch:SOLR comparisons at least.

Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

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Post by nl »

zackattack wrote: post #7
jtchang wrote: post #2

You 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.

CloudSearch is just not economically feasible for a SaaS / free multiuser offering

Are you saying it is too much? WebSolr etc have options that are cheaper.

Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

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Post by nl »

zackattack wrote: post #7
jtchang wrote: post #2

You 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.

CloudSearch is just not economically feasible for a SaaS / free multiuser offering

Are you saying it is too much? WebSolr etc have options that are cheaper.

Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

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Post by negamax »

staunch wrote: post #4

Feeling 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.

Moreover they keep reducing their costs as they grow capacity. Before AWS all server hosts used to revise their price upwards.

Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

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Post by johns »

jtchang wrote: post #2

You 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.

There's also:

   Searchify, Running the full open sourced IndexTank Search as a Service API  
   HoundSleuth, IndexTank Compatible API  
   IndexTanktoGO, IndexTank Compatible API  
   Bimaple, IndexTank Compatible API  
   IndexDen, IndexTank Compatible API

Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

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Post by Ecio78 »

nl wrote: post #13
zackattack wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

CloudSearch is just not economically feasible for a SaaS / free multiuser offering Are you saying it is too much? WebSolr etc have options that are cheaper.

Looking for hosted Solr solutions I found also:

http://www.opensolr.com/

http://www.solrhq.com/

http://www.midwesternmac.com/services/hosted-solr-search

http://www.netaphorsearch.com/products/solr-hosting

http://www.acquia.com/products-services/acquia-network/cloud...

(they're mainly targeted to drupal)

anything else?

Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

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Post by hboon »

mryan wrote: post #10
joshu wrote: post #5

anyone 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/

Just like they said AWS is the infrastructure that powers Amazon when AWS started out. I'd read this with a pinch of salt.

Re: Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

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Post by superfork »

mryan wrote: post #10
joshu wrote: post #5

anyone 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/

yes, CloudSearch uses/wraps around the search stack developed at A9. The CloudSearch team is also actually at A9.
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