NOTE – A new version of the Amazon CloudSearch Developer Guide is available at This is official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for Amazon CloudSearch. This developer guide provides you with an overview of Amazon CloudSearch and shows you how to create and configure an Amazon CloudSearch domain, upload the data you want to search to your domain, and search your domain. This guide also includes the Amazon CloudSearch command line tools and Amazon CloudSearch API reference. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it online or in PDF format at Amazon CloudSearch is a fully-managed service in the cloud that makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website. Amazon CloudSearch enables you to search large collections of data such as web pages, document files, forum posts, or product information.