AWS Cloud Search replace indexes with new one

Question

I'm using AWS PHP API to do some stuff with AWS Cloud Search. Right now I have static indexes. But I need to replace them dynamically.

E.g. current indexes are:

name | date | content

and I want to replace them with

time | description | username

How can I do it? How to delete all indexes/replace them with new indexes. Also how long re-indexing will take?

I assume I can cache indexes locally and than with deleteIndexField than do defineIndexField, but I don't think it's efficient way to do that. Is there any better way?

Answer 1

There's no batch-delete or batch-create for indexes in most Cloudsearch APIs. you'll have to delete and create each index individually. Re-indexing in my experience usually takes 25-45 minutes.

Answer 2

You delete the old fields and creates new fields or edit name index into panel control into AWS Console, after this re-index.