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Expanding the Cloud – Introducing Amazon CloudSearch
- sandieman 14y agoWhy is this awesome?
- wrath 14y agoI think it's the same as many other services from Amazon. It's the fact that you don't have to maintain it yourself. You use their APIs and it works. I don't know if you've ever tried to setup a search engine yourself but it can be a relative pain in the ass, especially if you want to do it at a large scale. This service provides a search engine that gets you up and going very fast, especially if you don't know how to do it. I haven't tried it yet but if it saves me time and it's relatively full featured, then I'm going to use it for sure.
- pan69 14y agoDoes anyone know what technology they are using to power this? Solr?
- simonw 14y agoIt's Amazon's in-house search stack, related to the A9 project.
- ericb 14y agoI wonder about Amazon's rapid expansion. If they later pull the plug on floundering services to regain focus (like google did), their customers have built technology and business around the service, which is pretty disastrous.
- alecco 14y agoGoogle underpriced the services while Amazon leans towards the expensive side and rarely lowers prices, making the services profitable. For example EC2 is very expensive and you usually run on 5yo hardware.