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    Essofore Semantic Search - Self-Hosted Document Store for RAG

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    Essofore is a self-hosted semantic search engine and document store for developers building enterprise search or RAG applications entirely within their own AWS infrastructure.

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    Essofore Semantic Search - Self-Hosted Document Store for Enterprise Search and RAG

    Essofore is a semantic search engine and document store that runs entirely within your AWS infrastructure. Unlike keyword-based search, Essofore understands the meaning behind your queries, delivering more relevant results for natural language questions. Deploy it as an AMI and start building enterprise search or Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications without sending your data to any third party.

    Who Is Essofore For?

    Essofore is built for development teams and platform engineers who need a search backend that is simple to deploy and operate. Whether you are building an internal knowledge base for your engineering team, a customer-support search tool, or a document retrieval layer for RAG pipelines feeding large language models, Essofore provides the semantic understanding your users expect.

    Key Capabilities

    • Semantic Query Understanding - Returns results based on meaning rather than exact keyword matches, improving relevance for natural language queries across technical documentation, policy archives, and support content.
    • Self-Hosted on Your AWS Account - Runs as an AMI within your VPC. Your documents and indexes never leave your infrastructure, giving you full control over data residency and access.
    • Developer-Friendly Design - Designed for fast integration without the configuration complexity of traditional enterprise search platforms. Ingest documents and start querying through a straightforward API.
    • RAG-Ready Architecture - Use Essofore as the retrieval layer in Retrieval-Augmented Generation workflows. Pair it with Amazon Bedrock, LangChain, or your preferred LLM framework to ground model responses in your proprietary documents.

    AWS Integration Points

    • Amazon S3 - Ingest documents stored in S3 buckets for indexing.
    • Amazon Bedrock - Use Essofore as a retrieval backend for RAG pipelines powered by Bedrock foundation models.
    • VPC Deployment - Runs entirely within your VPC with no outbound data calls, supporting private subnet and security group configurations.

    Use Case Example

    An engineering team with thousands of internal technical documents deploys Essofore on a single EC2 instance within their VPC. Team members query the system in natural language - for example, "How do we handle authentication token refresh?" - and receive semantically relevant document passages rather than keyword-matched noise. The same retrieval endpoint feeds an LLM-based assistant that generates contextual answers grounded in internal documentation.

    Getting Started

    Subscribe to Essofore Semantic Search on AWS Marketplace, launch the AMI in your preferred region, and begin indexing documents. Visit our documentation at https://www.essofore.com/docs  for detailed setup instructions and API reference.

    Highlights

    • Runs Entirely Within Your VPC - Essofore deploys as an AMI in your own AWS account. Your documents, indexes, and queries never leave your infrastructure. No data is transmitted to external servers, giving you complete control over data residency, access policies, and network isolation. Ideal for teams with strict data governance requirements who cannot use SaaS search services.
    • RAG-Ready Semantic Retrieval - Go beyond keyword matching with semantic understanding that returns relevant results for natural language queries. Use Essofore as the retrieval layer in Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines with Amazon Bedrock, LangChain, or other LLM frameworks. Ingest documents from S3 and serve contextually accurate passages to your generative AI applications.
    • Simple Deployment, No Ongoing SaaS Fees - Launch a single AMI and start indexing documents without managing clusters, shards, or complex configuration. Essofore is designed for developer productivity with a straightforward API. Pay only for your EC2 infrastructure with no per-query metering, no seat licenses, and no external dependencies that introduce unpredictable costs.

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    Essofore Semantic Search - Self-Hosted Document Store for RAG

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    Pricing is based on actual usage, with charges varying according to how much you consume. Subscriptions have no end date and may be canceled any time.
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    $0.55
    t4g.nano
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    You pay by the hour based on the AWS EC2 instance type you choose to run this self-hosted document store. Each dimension maps to a specific instance size, so pricing scales with the compute, memory, and storage you select. Smaller instances suit light workloads, while larger instances handle heavier search and indexing demands. The lineup spans general-purpose, compute-optimized, memory-optimized, and storage-focused instance families, plus bare-metal options. You are billed only for the hours each instance runs. Select the instance that fits your document volume and query load, then adjust as your needs change.

    Top-of-mind questions for buyers

    One unit is one running EC2 instance of the type you select, billed per hour. Each active instance meters its own hours separately. If you run several instances, each one accrues charges independently, even when they share the same instance type.
    Software charges apply per instance-hour while the instance runs. Fully stopped instances do not accrue software charges. Stopped instances may still incur separate AWS storage fees for attached volumes, but the software meters running time only.
    You choose one instance type, and its hourly rate reflects the compute, memory, and storage that family provides. Compute-optimized types suit query-heavy loads, memory-optimized types suit large indexes, and storage-focused types suit big document volumes. Bare-metal options give dedicated hardware. You pay only for the type you run.
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    64-bit (Arm) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

    Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

    An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.

    Version release notes

    Support for text, pdf, html and MS Office (doc, xls, ppt) formats

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    Usage instructions

    Start Service: sudo systemctl start essofore.service

    Stop Service: sudo systemctl stop essofore.service

    View Logs: journalctl -u essofore -f

    Docs: https://www.essofore.com/docs 

    Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-yA4_LU72Y 

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