Amazon CloudSearch
Amazon CloudSearch
Amazon CloudSearch is AWS's managed search service (gradually superseded by OpenSearch Service).
Managed service, simple ops
AWS no longer promotes CloudSearch; new projects should use OpenSearch Service
For legacy: CreateDomain, define index fields, UploadDocuments. New projects: use OpenSearch Service instead.
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About this API
CloudSearch is AWS's search service launched in 2012, based on Solr. When Elasticsearch wasn't mainstream yet, it was a decent choice. But AWS launched Elasticsearch Service in 2015 (later renamed OpenSearch Service), making CloudSearch's position awkward — slow updates, far smaller community ecosystem than Elastic. New projects almost never choose CloudSearch anymore, but legacy customer apps still run, so the API isn't deprecated. Our recommendation: for new projects, use OpenSearch Service or dedicated search SaaS like Algolia/Typesense.
What you can build
- 1Legacy applications still using CloudSearch
- 2Simple full-text search (no complex analytics)
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- Managed service, simple ops
- Relatively affordable
Limitations
- AWS no longer promotes CloudSearch; new projects should use OpenSearch Service
- Slow feature updates
- Limited support for complex schemas and aggregations
Example request
curl https://github.com/mermade/aws2openapi/<endpoint>Getting started
For legacy: CreateDomain, define index fields, UploadDocuments. New projects: use OpenSearch Service instead.
FAQ
Should new projects use CloudSearch?+
Not recommended. Use OpenSearch Service (Elastic-compatible) or Algolia/Typesense.
Technical details
- Auth type
- unknown
- Pricing
- unknown
- Protocols
- REST
- SDKs
- python, javascript, go, java
- Response time
- 17 ms
- Last health check
- 5/12/2026, 7:36:33 AM
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