Reduce Amazon CloudSearch costs with these tips

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Amazon CloudSearch cost saving tips

Optimize your Amazon CloudSearch costs with these tips

Tune Search Requests

Reducing processing overhead can be achieved by optimizing queries, filters, and sorting in your search requests. This will lower costs by reducing resource intensity.

Use the Free Tier

Amazon CloudSearch offers a free tier with 750 hours of search instance usage and unlimited document uploads per month. This helps in evaluating the service before incurring costs.

Deprovision Resources

Delete unused search domains, partitions, or documents and scale down underutilized instances. Regular monitoring through CloudWatch can identify optimization opportunities.

Service information & pricing

About Amazon CloudSearch

About Amazon CloudSearch

Amazon CloudSearch, an AWS managed service, offers a scalable search solution for websites and apps. It supports 34 languages and highlights, autocomplete, and geospatial search features. The solution takes off the burden of hardware maintenance and provisioning, scaling as needed. It prioritizes user-friendly management and configuration, robust autoscaling, monitoring, recovery, performance and cost-effectiveness. It also guarantees strong security.

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Amazon CloudSearch pricing

Amazon CloudSearch pricing depends on monthly usage, with no set-up fees or pre-commitments. Costs majorly stem from search instance usage, document batch uploads, index document requests, and data transfer. A free trial offers 750 hours of functional search instances for 30 days. The AWS Simple Monthly Calculator can estimate monthly expenses.

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