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Building Serverless Architectures

You're reading from   Building Serverless Architectures Unleash the power of AWS Lambdas for your applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787129191
Length 242 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Creating the search domain

As a first step, we should create the search domain. A search domain is a cluster of machines in which we store our documents.

To create a search domain, first, we need to navigate to the CloudSearch section of the AWS Console and click on the Create a New Domain button.

After pressing this button, a new wizard will launch that will walk you through the new search domain creation. You should specify a name for your search domain, and in our case, we name it serverlessbook:

On the same screen, you should also specify an instance type. So far, we never had to specify any instance type, but CloudSearch is not fully serverless, so you will be launching virtual machines under the hood. CloudSearch has a family of instances starting from search.m1.small to search.m3.2xlarge. These instances have different hardware configurations and different pricing per...

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