Amazon Web Services Update | London

November 2012

Amazon CloudSearch

Puneet Gupta

Sr. Director, CloudSearch

Agenda

CloudSearch Overview

Features and Benefits

Create a Search Domain

New Features and Updates

Product Roadmap

Resources

Amazon CloudSearch

Launched – April, 2012

Fully-managed, full-featured search service

Support for both structured and unstructured data

Near real-time indexing

Automatically scales for data & traffic

Full featured Search Engine Relevance & Ranking

Facets

Fielded

Free Text & Boolean Search

SEARCH CLIENT www.example.com

SEARCH DEVELOPER

Search API Console

SEARCH ENDPOINT DOCUMENT SERVICE ENDPOINT CONFIGURATION SERVICE ENDPOINT

Configuration

API

Command

Line Tools Console Document

Service API

Command

Line Tools Console

SEARCH SERVICE

Search Documents

DOCUMENT SERVICE

Add Documents

Update Documents

Delete Documents

Create Domains

Configure Domains

Delete Domains

CONFIGURATION SERVICE

Send

Search

Requests

Search

Results

Use the Search

Tester

Send

Documents Create and

Manage Domains

ACCESS CONTROL ACCESS CONTROL ACCESS CONTROL

Amazon CloudSearch Architecture

Getting Started

3 easy steps

• Create and Configure

Search Domain

• Upload documents

• Send queries

Configuration

Field types: text, literal, uint

Options: search, facet, result

Configure Search Domain

Upload Documents

Console (good for small data sets)

Command Line

• cs-post-sdf --source <file> [other options]

• curl -d @<file> [other options]

Direct-to-API

• http://<endpoint>/2011-02-01/documents/batch

Search Integration

Console

Full text search

Text relevance

Facets

CloudSearch background…

+ Innovations in

Search

Innovations in

Cloud Computing

Automatic Scaling: Data & Traffic

SEARCH INSTANCE Index Partition n

Copy 1

SEARCH INSTANCE Index Partition 2

Copy 2

SEARCH INSTANCE Index Partition n

Copy 2

SEARCH INSTANCE Index Partition 2

Copy n

SEARCH INSTANCE

DATA Document Quantity and Size

TRAFFIC Search Request Volume and Complexity

Index Partition n Copy n

SEARCH INSTANCE

SEARCH INSTANCE Index Partition 1

Copy 1

SEARCH INSTANCE Index Partition 2

Copy 1

SEARCH INSTANCE Index Partition 1

Copy 2

SEARCH INSTANCE Index Partition 1

Copy n

Index Partition 1 Copy 1

New Features and Updates

New Features

Field Weighting

• Field weighting prioritizes results from certain fields to improve

document ranking

Query Time Rank Expressions

• Query time rank expressions enable you to personalize search

results by customizing ranking for each search request

Price Drop

17% - 19% price drop

Instance Type Old Price New Price

Small $0.12 $0.10

Large $0.48 $0.39

Extra Large $0.68 $0.55

price per instance hour

30 Day Free Trial

750 free instance hours of CloudSearch

10,000 document batch uploads (each batch with max. size of 5 MB)

10 IndexDocuments requests

What’s next…

Roadmap Feature Requests

Multi-AZ Support

Additional AWS Regions

Support large (10B+ documents)

Analytics

UI Widgets

Crawler

Tighter Integration with AWS Storage Services

Resources

Detail Page – http://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

Sample Videos

Documentation

FAQs

Community Forum

Amazon CloudSearch Solution Architects

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Thank you

Puneet Gupta

Sr. Director, CloudSearch

puneetg@amazon.com

csbd@amazon.com

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