Beijing time on April 13, according to foreign media reports, Amazon recently announced that it will add a service called "Cloud Search" (CloudSearch) to the "Amazon Web Services" (AWS) series, returning to search after six years. market.
Amazon CloudSearch cloud search service can integrate search functions into websites and applications, whether it is a user-oriented website or a corporate website, it uses the same search technology as Amazon.com. This is a significant business development because many e-commerce sites have terrible search capabilities, losing potential revenue.
In 2004, Amazon had its own A9 search engine, which initially relied on Google to provide search results. In 2006, Amazon shut down A9 Search, and Udi Manber, the technical lead on the A9 project, joined Google. Amazon has returned to the search market after six years. At this time, Amazon's search service has become a real commodity, and it is one of the AWS services.
Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels said via a blog: "Amazon Cloud Search will have a democratizing effect because it provides features that many users have not been able to use before. Amazon Cloud Search can be said to be a powerful The search engine is available to every developer at familiar low prices and supports a pay-as-you-go model, which allows developers to improve the functionality of their products and achieve lower costs. It doesn’t even require management.”
Amazon Cloud Search provides enterprises and individual developers with another option when purchasing search services. Google currently provides such services through open source search software such as Apache Lucene. Amazon Web Services technician Jeff Barr said users can set up their own searches in less than an hour, and the service is priced at just $100 per month.
The service prices vary depending on the size of the search. There are three sizes, small, large and extra large. The prices for these examples are 12 cents, 48 cents, and 68 cents per hour respectively. There are additional charges for uploading data. Configuration changes that require data to be re-indexed cost 98 cents per gigabyte.
Image hosting and sharing website Smugmug supports image browsing through Amazon Cloud Search Service. Other companies using this service include Search Technologies, NewsRight, ex.fm, Car Domain and Sage Bionetworks.