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CloudSearch is a flexible plugin that allows you to leverage the search index power of Amazon CloudSearch in your WordPress site. 
To use this plugin you’ll need an Amazon Web Services account. Attention: Amazon CloudSearch is a paid service and will require a credit card.
Before you can start using CloudSearch, the plugin needs to be activated and configured. Activate the plugin, then go to the menu “CloudSearch -> Settings” (you can find this menu in the sidebar of your WordPress admin panel). 
Fill the form data:
<ul>
<li>Enter Amazon access key ID, Amazon secret access key and Amazon region for your account (look for “Security Credentials” in your Amazon console to retrieve these data)</li>
<li>Enter your CloudSearch index search endpoint and the domain name (I suggest to create the CloudSearch index before you start the plugin configuration)</li>
<li>Schema settings</li>
<li>Other settings</li>
</ul>
IMPORTANT NOTES WITH RELEASE 2.0.0: 
* At least WordPress 4.4 version mandatory (for WP_Term support) 
* Changed APIs output from an array of IDs to an array of object composed by the entity ID and the entity type
Minimum requirements:
<ul>
<li>WordPress Version 4.4</li>
<li>PHP Version 5.3</li>
<li>Amazon Web Services account with CloudSearch enabled</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to <code>CloudSearch -> Settings</code></li>
<li>Enter your <code>Amazon access key ID</code>, <code>Secret access key</code> and the <code>Amazon region</code> where you have created the CloudSearch index</li>
<li>Enter a <code>Search endpoint</code> and the <code>Domain name</code>. Get these info in your CloudSearch dashboard in AWS Console</li>
<li>Choose post types, custom fields and custom taxonomies that you want to export to the CloudSearch index</li>
<li>Set up other settings or leave defaults</li>
<li>Save settings.</li>
<li>Go to <code>CloudSearch -> Manage</code></li>
<li>Click the action <code>Create index</code>, <code>Run indexing</code> and <code>Sync all documents</code>. Between every action wait until the <code>Status</code> field is <code>Active</code>, then go on with the next task</li>
<li>After these operation your index is ready, now you can search documents in your CloudSearch index</li>
</ol>
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CloudSearch

This plugin works great and saved me a huge amount of time. The developer is also responsive and was quick to make improvements when I discovered an issue with the implementation.

Huge time saver and responsive developer

CloudSearch is a flexible plugin that allows you to leverage the search index power of Amazon CloudSearch in your WordPress site.

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