Amazon CloudSearch
Amazon CloudSearch is a managed search service that makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website or application. Supports full-text search, Boolean search, faceted search, autocomplete, geospatial search, and 34 languages.
Amazon CloudSearch is listed with 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Domains API, Index Fields API, and Cloudsearch Operations API. Tagged areas include Amazon Web Services, CloudSearch, Search, Full-Text Search, and Managed.
The Amazon CloudSearch catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 3 Spectral governance rulesets.
Amazon CloudSearch’s developer surface includes changelog, sandbox, getting-started guide, authentication, developer portal, documentation, support, and 44 more developer resources.
Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search API (Elasticsearch / OpenSearch shape) | undeclared | - | - | - |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 1
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 3
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Amazon CloudSearch Domains API
Operations for creating and managing search domains
Amazon CloudSearch Index Fields API
Operations for defining and managing index fields
Amazon CloudSearch Cloudsearch Operations API
The Cloudsearch Operations API from Amazon CloudSearch — 21 operation(s) for cloudsearch operations.
Open Collections 2
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Amazon CloudSearch Domains API
OPEN COLLECTIONAmazon CloudSearch Domains Index Fields API
OPEN COLLECTIONAmazon CloudSearch API pricing
Prices published by Amazon CloudSearch, read 2026-10-28 from aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/pricing/.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Batch Uploads | $0.10 per 1,000 Batch Upload Requests (the maximum size for each batch is 5 MB) |
| IndexDocuments Requests | $0.98 per GB of data stored in your search domain |
Plan details, limits and sources →
Rate limits
- Data loading volume: You can load one document batch every 10 seconds (approximately 10,000 batches every 24 hours), with each batch size up
- Batch size: The maximum batch size is 5 MB.
- Search domains: Each AWS account can create up to 100 search domains.
Billed by: 1,000 batch upload requests · FinOps profile →
Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Amazon CloudSearch Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSTerms of Service 1
What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.
Compliance 1
Attestations the provider states (SOC 2, ISO 27001 and others), quoted from its own trust page. APIs.io verifies none of them.
Amazon CloudSearch
5 quoted statements, read from Amazon CloudSearch's own page on 2026-11-09.
COMPLIANCEAI Preferences 1
Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.
Amazon CloudSearch
2 quoted statements, read from Amazon CloudSearch's own page on 2026-11-09.
AI PREFSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Features 6
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Managed Search Infrastructure
Set up, manage, and scale search without becoming a search expert.
Multi-Language Support
Full-text search across 34 languages with language-specific analyzers.
Faceted Search
Narrow search results by category with faceted navigation.
Autocomplete Suggestions
Real-time search suggestions as users type.
Automatic Scaling
Automatically scale resources as data volume and query traffic change.
High Availability
Distribute search traffic across multiple availability zones with Multi-AZ.
Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Amazon Cloudsearch Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 3
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.
Amazon CloudSearch API Rules
SPECTRALAmazon CloudSearch API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 1
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
JSON Schema 20
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
DeleteIndexFieldRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteIndexFieldResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeAnalysisSchemesRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeAvailabilityOptionsRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeDomainEndpointOptionsRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeExpressionsRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeIndexFieldsRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeIndexFieldsResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeSuggestersRequest
JSON SCHEMAAmazon CloudSearch Domain
JSON SCHEMAUpdateAvailabilityOptionsRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateDomainRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateDomainResponse
JSON SCHEMADefineIndexFieldRequest
JSON SCHEMADefineIndexFieldResponse
JSON SCHEMADeleteDomainResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeDomainsResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeIndexFieldsResponse
JSON SCHEMADomainStatus
JSON SCHEMAIndexDocumentsResponse
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JSON Structure 9
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Cloudsearch Create Domain Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudsearch Create Domain Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudsearch Define Index Field Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudsearch Define Index Field Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudsearch Delete Domain Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudsearch Describe Domains Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudsearch Describe Index Fields Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudsearch Domain Status Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudsearch Index Documents Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREScroll for all 9
Examples 9
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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Security Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 4
What developers build with this provider.
Website Search
Add powerful full-text search capabilities to websites and web applications.
E-Commerce Product Search
Enable customers to find products with faceted filtering and relevance ranking.
Document Search
Search across large document repositories with Boolean and proximity search.
Geospatial Search
Find resources by location with geospatial search queries.
Integrations 4
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
Amazon S3
Index documents stored in S3 buckets.
Amazon DynamoDB
Search DynamoDB data by exporting to CloudSearch.
AWS IAM
Control access to search domains with IAM policies.
Amazon CloudFront
Cache search results at CloudFront edge for lower latency.
Resources
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 10
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 7
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 8
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
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Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 4
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Amazon CloudSearch API — frequently asked questions
Does Amazon CloudSearch have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Amazon CloudSearch, including Amazon CloudSearch Domains API, Amazon CloudSearch Index Fields API and Amazon CloudSearch Cloudsearch Operations API.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Amazon CloudSearch API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Amazon CloudSearch, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Amazon CloudSearch API?
Amazon CloudSearch uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Amazon CloudSearch Authentication.
How much does the Amazon CloudSearch API cost?
Amazon CloudSearch publishes its prices; its Batch Uploads plan is $0.10 per 1,000 Batch Upload Requests (the maximum size for each batch is 5 MB) as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for Amazon CloudSearch, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the Amazon CloudSearch API ready for AI agents?
Amazon CloudSearch has a Kin Score of 80.3 out of 100 (exemplar) and an Agent Readiness score of 27.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.
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