Amazon CloudSearch vs Found Elasticsearch: What are the differences?

Developers describe Amazon CloudSearch as "Set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website or application". Amazon CloudSearch enables you to search large collections of data such as web pages, document files, forum posts, or product information. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can create a search domain, upload the data you want to make searchable to Amazon CloudSearch, and the search service automatically provisions the required technology resources and deploys a highly tuned search index. On the other hand, Found Elasticsearch is detailed as "Hosted Elasticsearch". Create your own fully managed and hosted Elasticsearch cluster. You get a dedicated cluster with reserved memory, giving you predictable performance. There are no arbitrary limits on how many indexes or documents you can store. Scale your clusters as and when needed, without any downtime.

Amazon CloudSearch and Found Elasticsearch belong to "Search as a Service" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Amazon CloudSearch are:

• Simple to Configure – You can make your data searchable using the AWS Management Console, API calls, or command line tools. Simply point to a sample set of data, and Amazon CloudSearch automatically proposes a list of index fields and a suggested configuration.
• Automatic Scaling For Data &amp
• Traffic – Amazon CloudSearch scales up and down seamlessly as the amount of data or query volume changes.

On the other hand, Found Elasticsearch provides the following key features:

• Hosted and managed: You get your own fully hosted and managed Elasticsearch cluster. No need to host and maintain your own costly search infrastructure.
• Reserved Memory and storage: Your clusters get reserved memory and storage. No shared clusters and no arbitrary limits on how many indexes or documents you can store.
• Scalable and flexible: Start small, grow big. You can scale your cluster as and when needed, without any downtime. There are several Elasticsearch versions to choose from, and upgrading is easier than ever.