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Understanding Amazon Cloud Search

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What is Amazon Cloud Search Amazon CloudSearch is a fully-managed service in the AWS Cloud that makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website or application Understanding a Search Engine A search engine makes it possible to search large collections of mostly textual data items (called documents) to quickly find the best matching results. Search requests are usually a few words of unstructured text, such as "matt damon movies". The returned results are usually ranked with the best matching, or most relevant, items listed first (the ones that are most "about" the search words). Documents may be completely unstructured, or they can contain multiple fields that can optionally be searched individually. For example, a search service for movies might have documents with fields for title, director, actor, description, and reviews. Results returned by a search engine are typically proxies for the underlying documents, such a...

Answering Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) basics

Introducing Amazon S3 Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It’s a simple storage service that offers software developers a highly-scalable, reliable, and low-latency data storage infrastructure at very low costs. Amazon S3 provides a simple web service interface that you can use to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. Using this web service, developers can easily build applications that make use of Internet storage. Since Amazon S3 is highly scalable and you only pay for what you use, developers can start small and grow their application as they wish, with no compromise on performance or reliability. Amazon S3 is also designed to be highly flexible. Store any type and amount of data that you want; read the same piece of data a million times or only for emergency disaster recovery; build a simple FTP application, or a sophisticated web application such as the Amazon.com retail web site. Amazon S3 frees developers to focus on innovation,...

Answering Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) Basics You Need to Know

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a highly scalable and cost-effective platform for sending and receiving email. Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email solution. Amazon SES can reliably deliver merchandising, subscription, transactional, and notification email messages Ideal Solution Amazon SES is a great solution for anyone who needs a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive way to send or receive email. Amazon SES is a economic solution for organizations such as online retailers, application developers large and small   and digital marketing organizations.   Limitations A WS reserves the right to suspend any account identified as sending spam or other unwanted low-quality email, or take other action as AWS deems appropriate. Maintaining a good reputation as a sender is vital if you rely on email delivery as part of your business – if you ha...

Getting Started with AWS IoT (Internet of Things)

Introducing AWS IoT A WS IoT is a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. AWS IoT can support billions of devices and trillions of messages, and can process and route those messages to AWS endpoints and to other devices reliably and securely. With AWS IoT, your applications can keep track of and communicate with all your devices, all the time, even when they aren’t connected. AWS IoT makes it easy to use AWS services like AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon S3, Amazon Machine Learning, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail  etc   to build IoT applications that gather, process, analyze and act on data generated by connected devices, without having to manage any infrastructure. Offerings under AWS IoT AWS IoT provides a managed, multitenant service that enables communication between IoT devices, applications, and the backend. By virtue of being a managed service, IoT platform...