building great search – how to overcome common challenges jon handler, aws
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Building Great Search – How To
Overcome Common Challenges
Jon Handler, Amazon CloudSearch Solution Architect
Agenda
• Introduction
• Search Challenges: UK Survey Results
• Amazon CloudSearch Overview
• Jon Handler, Solutions Architect, Amazon CloudSearch
• Search Architectures
• Iain Fletcher, VP Marketing, Search Technologies
• Argus Media Case Study
• Chris Fosberry, CTO, Argus Media Ltd.
UK Search Survey • Surveyed UK IT companies
• Questions: focused on search use and
challenges
• Over 100 responses
• Individual contributors to IT directors
UK Search Survey • Surveyed UK IT companies
• Questions: focused on search use and
challenges
• Over 100 responses
• Individual contributors to IT directors
Pain Points
Ease of Use: 48%
Poor Search
Results: 34%
4. Scalability/Slow Indexing Slow Indexing,
Scalability: 59%
49% 49%
Starting New Search Projects?
Satisfied With Your Search?
33% Dissatisfied
or Very Dissatisfied
Survey Summary
Easier to use
Better user experience
Performance and scalability
Reduce costs
Amazon CloudSearch
• Pay for infrastructure you need when you need it
• Low cost
• No need to guess capacity
• Experiment fast with low risk
• We do the undifferentiated heavy lifting
• Go global in minutes
CloudSearch Features
• Managed search service
• Highly tunable
• Core search features
• Advanced tools – relevance and metrics
Reference Architecture
Automatic Scaling
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TRAFFIC Search Request Volume and Complexity
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Selected CloudSearch Users
Resources
• Amazon CloudSearch Overview Page
• http://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/
• FAQs; Community Forum; Tutorial
• Introducing Amazon CloudSearch (Features)
• Building a Search Application Using Amazon CloudSearch
• Free 30-day trial
• Book a Search Use Case review
