AWS S3'CloudSearch'

Question

Gone through amazon SDK/documentation and there isn't a lot around programtically querying/searching for documents on S3 bucket. Sure, can get document by id/name but i want to have ability to search by other meta tags such as author.

Would appreciate some guidance and a specific example of a query being executed and not a local iteration once all documents or items have been pulled locally.

Answer 1

[…] there isn't a lot around programtically querying/searching for documents on S3 bucket.

Right. S3 is flat file storage, and doesn't provide a query interface.

[…] i want to have ability to search by other meta tags such as author.

This will need to be solved by your application logic. This is not built-in to S3.

For example, you can store the metadata about an S3 document/file in DynamoDB. You query DynamoDB for the metadata, which includes a pointer to the file in S3.

Unfortunately, if you already have a bunch of files in S3, you'll need to find a way to build that initial index of your data.

Answer 2

亚马逊刚刚发布了云搜索的新功能http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2014/03/24/amazon-cloudsearch-introduces-powerful-new-search-and-admin-features/ 。