What Is Amazon CloudSearch?
- Search Data Format
- Search Domain Configuration
- Search Requests
Getting Started
- Step 1: Before You Begin
- Step 2: Create a Search Domain
- Step 3: Send Data for Indexing
- Step 4: Search Your Amazon CloudSearch Domain
- Step 5: Delete Your Amazon CloudSearch Movies Domain
Making API Requests
- Regions and Endpoints
- Making Configuration Requests
  - Request Authentication
- Making Document Service Requests
- Making Search Requests
Creating a Search Domain
Configuring Access for a Search Domain
Monitoring Search Domains
- Getting Domain Information
- Viewing Search Metrics
- Tracking your Amazon CloudSearch Usage and Charges
Deleting a Domain
Preparing Your Data
- Mapping Document Data to Index Fields
- Creating SDF Batches
Configuring Index Fields
- Adding Sources for a Field
- Command Line Tools
- AWS Management Console
- API
Configuring Text Options
- Configuring Stemming
- Configuring Stopwords
- Configuring Synonyms
Uploading Data
Indexing Document Data
Searching Your Data
- Submitting Search Requests
- Searching Text Fields
- Searching Literal Fields
- Searching Uint Fields
- Constructing Boolean Search Queries
- Controlling Search Results
- Getting and Using Facet Information
- Tuning Search Requests
Customizing Result Ranking
- Configuring Rank Expressions
  - Defining Rank Expressions in Search Requests
  - Defining Rank Expressions in a Domain Configuration
- Using Relative Field Weighting to Customize Text Relevance
- Comparing Rank Expressions
- Ranking Search Results
- Constraining Search Results
Searching and Ranking Results by Geographic Location
- Representing Locations
- Searching Within an Area
- Sorting Results by Distance
Using the Amazon CloudSearch Console
- Access Policies
- Domain Dashboard
  - Domain Status
- Amazon CloudSearch Dashboard
- Indexing Options
- Needs Indexing
- Processing
- Rank Comparison
- Rank Expressions
- Search Domains
- Search Count Metrics
- Stems
- Stopwords
- Synonyms
- Run a Test Search
- Top Documents Metrics
- Top Searches Metrics
Command Line Tool Reference
- Using the Command Line Tools
- Common Options
- cs-configure-access-policies
- cs-configure-fields
- cs-configure-ranking
- cs-configure-text-options
- cs-create-domain
- cs-configure-from-sdf
- cs-delete-domain
- cs-describe-domain
- cs-index-documents
- cs-post-sdf
- Experimental Tools
  - cs-generate-sdf
Configuration API Reference
- Actions
- Data Types
- Common Query Parameters
- Common Errors
Document Service API Reference
- documents/batch
  - documents/batch JSON API
  - documents/batch XML API
Search API Reference
- search
Handling Errors
Troubleshooting
Limits
Articles and Tutorials
Amazon CloudSearch Glossary
Document History

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Getting Started with Amazon CloudSearch

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To start searching your data with Amazon CloudSearch, you simply:

Create and configure a search domain
Upload and index the data you want to search
Send search requests to your domain

This tutorial shows you how to get up and running using the AWS Management Console for Amazon CloudSearch. To make it even easier to get started, we've generated a sample data set of over 5,000 popular movie titles that you can download and examine, upload to your own search domain, and submit search queries against to see how Amazon CloudSearch works.

Using the AWS Management Console and the sample movie data, you'll quickly have your own searchable movie database running in Amazon CloudSearch.

To begin, Get Signed Up.

The following video steps steps through this tutorial and shows how to create your first search domain through the console:

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