Amazon CloudSearch launched in Beta

Amazon has added another useful component to their Amazon Web Services platform.

They have named it Amazon CloudSearch and it allows app developers to add search services to their products.

The company spoke about this new feature:

Amazon CloudSearch is a fully-managed search service in the cloud that allows customers to easily integrate fast and highly scalable search functionality into their applications. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, developers simply create a search domain, upload the data they want to make searchable to Amazon CloudSearch, and the service then automatically provisions the technology resources required and deploys a highly tuned search index.

Amazon CloudSearch seamlessly scales as the amount of searchable data increases or as the query rate changes, and developers can change search parameters, fine tune search relevance, and apply new settings at any time without having to upload the data again.

Amazon CloudSearch enables customers to offload the administrative burden of operating and scaling a search platform. Customers don’t have to worry about hardware provisioning, data partitioning, or software patches. Amazon CloudSearch offers low, pay-as-you-go pricing with no up-front expenses or long-term commitments.