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
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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Step 1: Before You Begin with Amazon CloudSearch

To use Amazon CloudSearch, you need an AWS account. Your AWS account enables you to access Amazon CloudSearch and other AWS services, such as Amazon S3 and EC2. As with other AWS services, you pay only for the Amazon CloudSearch resources you use. There are no sign up fees and charges are not incurred until you create a search domain.

If you already have an AWS account, you are automatically signed up for Amazon CloudSearch.

To create an AWS account

Go to https://aws.amazon.com and click Sign Up Now.
Follow the instructions to sign up. You will need to enter payment information before you can begin using Amazon CloudSearch.

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