What is the difference between AWS Elasticsearch and AWS CloudSearch?

Question

When should I use AWS Elasticsearch over AWS CloudSearch and vice versa?

Billups

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Answer 1

Amazon Elasticsearch Service provides a fully-managed implementation of Elasticsearch and Kibana. It is commonly used for near real-time visualizations of logs files (but can handle many use-cases).

Amazon CloudSearch is based on Apache Solr. It requires data to be loaded as documents and is good for full-text search, with an understanding of languages and grammar (eg synonyms, words to ignore).

So, it really comes down to whether you want to use Elasticsearch or Solr.

Jacobsohn

Based on this answer, there aren't really any reasons to use Solr compared to Elasticsearch, so it would be logical to think there aren't really any reasons to use Amazon CloudSearch compared to Amazon Elasticsearch Service, either. – Santoro

Pricing is an important factor – Sheriff