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 publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Domains API and Index Fields API. Tagged areas include CloudSearch, Search, Full-Text Search, and Managed.

The Amazon CloudSearch catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Amazon CloudSearch’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, support, engineering blog, developer console, signup flow, YouTube channel, and 22 more developer resources.

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50.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-24 · rubric v0.13.0

2 APIs 1 MCP Servers 6 Features 4 Use Cases

CloudSearchSearch Full-Text Search Managed

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Composite quality — 50.2/100 · developing

Contract Quality 17.2 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 6.7 / 20

Access Clarity 10.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.4 / 13

Contract Governance 5.5 / 12

Discoverability 8.5 / 10

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Amazon CloudSearch MCP Server

MCP SERVER

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.

JSON Schema 10

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

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Examples 9

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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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 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Console

Console

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Lifecycle

SpectralRules

Vocabulary

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Compliance

Compliance

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

StackOverflow

Contact

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

name: Amazon CloudSearch
description: 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.
specificationVersion: '0.23'
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://a0.awsstatic.com/libra-css/images/logos/aws_logo_smile_1200x630.png
url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/
created: '2024-01-15'
modified: '2026-06-20'
apis:
- aid: amazon-cloudsearch:amazon-cloudsearch-domains-api
  name: Amazon CloudSearch Domains API
  description: Operations for creating and managing search domains
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/
  baseURL: https://cloudsearch.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Domains
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-cloudsearch-domains-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/latest/developerguide/what-is-cloudsearch.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/getting-started/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/pricing/
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/faqs/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/latest/developerguide/what-is-cloudsearch.html
  - type: CLI
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/cloudsearch/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudsearch-create-domain-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudsearch-create-domain-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudsearch-describe-domains-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudsearch-delete-domain-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudsearch-domain-status-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/amazon-cloudsearch-context.jsonld
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/amazon-cloudsearch-problem-types.yml
- aid: amazon-cloudsearch:amazon-cloudsearch-index-fields-api
  name: Amazon CloudSearch Index Fields API
  description: Operations for defining and managing index fields
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/
  baseURL: https://cloudsearch.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Index Fields
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-cloudsearch-index-fields-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/latest/developerguide/what-is-cloudsearch.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/getting-started/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/pricing/
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/faqs/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/latest/developerguide/what-is-cloudsearch.html
  - type: CLI
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/cloudsearch/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudsearch-create-domain-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudsearch-create-domain-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudsearch-describe-domains-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudsearch-delete-domain-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudsearch-domain-status-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/amazon-cloudsearch-context.jsonld
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/amazon-cloudsearch-problem-types.yml
common:
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/amazon-cloudsearch-mcp.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/amazon-cloudsearch-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/amazon-cloudsearch-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/amazon-cloudsearch-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/amazon-cloudsearch-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/amazon-cloudsearch-domain-security.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/
- type: Website
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/latest/developerguide/what-is-cloudsearch.html
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/
- type: Support
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/
- type: Blog
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/aws
- type: Console
  url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://signin.aws.amazon.com/signup?request_type=register
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServices
- type: StackOverflow
  url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/amazon-cloudsearch
- type: Contact
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/amazon-cloudsearch-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/amazon-cloudsearch-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/amazon-cloudsearch-security.txt
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/amazon-cloudsearch-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/amazon-cloudsearch-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/amazon-cloudsearch-lifecycle.yml
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/amazon-cloudsearch-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/amazon-cloudsearch-vocabulary.yaml
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Managed Search Infrastructure
    description: Set up, manage, and scale search without becoming a search expert.
  - name: Multi-Language Support
    description: Full-text search across 34 languages with language-specific analyzers.
  - name: Faceted Search
    description: Narrow search results by category with faceted navigation.
  - name: Autocomplete Suggestions
    description: Real-time search suggestions as users type.
  - name: Automatic Scaling
    description: Automatically scale resources as data volume and query traffic change.
  - name: High Availability
    description: Distribute search traffic across multiple availability zones with Multi-AZ.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Website Search
    description: Add powerful full-text search capabilities to websites and web applications.
  - name: E-Commerce Product Search
    description: Enable customers to find products with faceted filtering and relevance ranking.
  - name: Document Search
    description: Search across large document repositories with Boolean and proximity search.
  - name: Geospatial Search
    description: Find resources by location with geospatial search queries.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Amazon S3
    description: Index documents stored in S3 buckets.
  - name: Amazon DynamoDB
    description: Search DynamoDB data by exporting to CloudSearch.
  - name: AWS IAM
    description: Control access to search domains with IAM policies.
  - name: Amazon CloudFront
    description: Cache search results at CloudFront edge for lower latency.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
  url: https://apievangelist.com
tags:
- AWS
- CloudSearch
- Search
- Full-Text Search
- Managed

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