In the last chapter, we saw how to build surrounding services around our serverless application with minimal custom code usage. In this chapter, we will also develop a supporting service which is search. Content is the king, and it is very important to help your users discover the most relevant content in your application.
Search is a huge topic that many books can be written about, but in this chapter, we wanted to show one of the AWS offerings that lets you build a simple search engine: CloudSearch. CloudSearch is a fully managed service built on top of SOLR and provides a simple API to index and search documents, as well as build a suggestion feature.
If your needs are more complex, you may consider using the ElasticSearch service. This is managed Elasticsearch cluster provisioning server, but in this case, you would be using AWS APIs just to provision your cluster...
