CloudSearch

Amazon CloudSearch is a managed search engine service based on Apache Solr.

Website: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/[01]
Developer: Amazon.com, Inc.
Country of Origin: US
Start Year: 2012 [03]
Project Type: Commercial
Embeds / Uses: Solr
Operating System: Hosted
License: Proprietary

Website: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/[01]
Developer: Amazon.com, Inc.
Country of Origin: US
Start Year: 2012 [03]
Project Type: Commercial
Embeds / Uses: Solr
Operating System: Hosted
License: Proprietary

CloudSearch

Amazon CloudSearch is a managed search engine service based on Apache Solr.

History[02]

Amazon announced in 2024 that they were no longer letting new customers use CloudSearch and would be transitioning their development efforts into OpenSearch.

Checkpoints

Consistent

Same as Solr

Concurrency Control

Optimistic Concurrency Control (OCC)

Same as Solr

Data Model

Document / XML

Same as Solr

Indexes

Inverted Index (Full Text)

Same as Solr

Isolation Levels

Read Committed

Same as Solr

Joins

Hash Join Sort-Merge Join

Same as Solr

Logging

Physical Logging

Same as Solr

Query Compilation

Not Supported

Same as Solr

Query Execution

Tuple-at-a-Time Model

Same as Solr

Query Interface

Custom API

Same as Solr

Storage Architecture

Disk-oriented

Same as Solr

Storage Model

Decomposition Storage Model (Columnar)

Same as Solr

Stored Procedures

Not Supported

Same as Solr

System Architecture

Shared-Nothing

Same as Solr

Views

Not Supported

Same as Solr

Citations

3 sources

Cloud Search Service - Amazon CloudSearch - AWS amazon.com Modified: 2026-07-15 Accessed: 2026-07-15
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/transition-from-amazon-cloudsearch-to-amazon-opensearch-service amazon.com
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-cloudsearch-start-searching-in-one-hour amazon.com

Revision #4 Last Updated: 2026-06-23 14:04