Release: Amazon CloudSearch on 2014-03-24

This is a significant upgrade of Amazon CloudSearch with a new API version. Amazon CloudSearch is now available in eight regions and supports 33 languages, highlighting, autocomplete suggestions, geospatial search, IAM integration to control access to domain configuration actions, and user configurable scaling and availability options.

Release Date: March 25, 2014
Created On: March 24, 2014
Last Updated: October 09, 2017

New Features

Feature Description
New Regions Amazon CloudSearch is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and South America (Sao Paulo) Regions. The new endpoints for configuration service requests in these regions are:
  • Asia Pacific (Tokyo): https://cloudsearch.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com
  • Asia Pacific (Sydney): https://cloudsearch.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com
  • South America (Sao Paulo): https://cloudsearch.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com

To learn more about regions, go to Regions and Endpoints in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.
Language Support Amazon CloudSearch now supports 33 languages plus "multiple" to handle mixed language content. The enhanced language support includes:
  • Per-field language configuration
  • Language-specific text analysis
  • Algorithmic stemming

For more information, see Configuring Analysis Schemes in the Amazon CloudSearch Developer Guide.
Enhanced Search Features Amazon CloudSearch now supports:
  • Autocomplete suggestions
  • Highlighting
  • Geospatial search
  • New data types: date, double, 64-bit signed int, latlon
  • Sloppy phrase searches
  • Term boosting
  • Enhanced range searching for all field types
  • Support for multiple query parsers: simple, structured, lucene, dismax

For more information, see Searching, Highlighting, and Getting Suggestions in the Amazon CloudSearch Developer Guide.
New Administration Features Amazon CloudSearch now enables you to configure scaling options for a domain and expand a domain into a second Availability Zone. In addition, Amazon CloudSearch is integrated with IAM to support resource-level access control for configuration actions. For more information, see Creating and Managing Search Domains in the Amazon CloudSearch Developer Guide.