What is the difference between AWS Elasticsearch and AWS CloudSearch?

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

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score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 31 '17 at 23:20

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.

What is the difference between AWS Elasticsearch and AWS CloudSearch?

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