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Amazon AWS CloudSearch vs Glean Platform comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon AWS CloudSearch
Ranking in Search as a Service
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Glean Platform
Ranking in Search as a Service
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Indexing and Search (2nd), AI Agent Builders (4th), AI Software Development (14th), AI Customer Support (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Search as a Service category, the mindshare of Amazon AWS CloudSearch is 5.5%, down from 8.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Glean Platform is 4.5%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Search as a Service Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Glean Platform4.5%
Amazon AWS CloudSearch5.5%
Other90.0%
Search as a Service
 

Featured Reviews

HM
Software Developer at ECFY Consulting Private Limited
Search workflows have become faster and our team manages operational records more efficiently
Improvements for Amazon AWS CloudSearch can be made, but I will first start with the biggest improvement. The biggest improvement area is that Amazon AWS CloudSearch feels a little older compared to newer AWS services. The second thing about improvement is the documentation. The documentation could definitely be refreshed with more practical examples and troubleshooting scenarios. During setup, a few indexing issues took longer to diagnose because error messages were pretty generic. Better debugging visibility would reduce trial-and-error work. Monitoring is decent through Amazon CloudWatch, but I would like more detailed search-level diagnostics out of the box. Sometimes it is not obvious why certain queries rank results differently unless you manually test a lot. More transparent query analysis, indexing, and insights would be useful. Logging exists, but deeper visibility would help during optimization.
Ananya Bl - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Analyst at Capgemini
Daily orchestration of complex ai workflows has boosted my research and automation capabilities
Orchestration primarily decides which agent handles which part of a task and manages errors, retries, and complete state while maintaining the workflow effectively. On the orchestration side, branching, looping, and human approvals support non-linear workflows in production environments with real-time access. Through refined and improved prompts, this helps in closing the loop with actual users. One unique feature that stood out is that every step in the workflow can pause or recover from failures. Instead of finishing the entire agent in one go, this approach is interesting because if there is a minor change in a previously completed step regarding the state, I can re-edit and restart from the beginning. This is truly impressive.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"CDN service reduces latency when accessing our web application."
"I've found the solution to be very scalable."
"The quality of the solution is good."
"In our case, AWS is the best in the market, actually."
"It will remain alive in the market. The solution will be stable in the market."
"It's the best solution for any company. It has a hosting ERP system for any task. AWS is stable. AWS is more flexible and its elastic concept is a new concept. AWS is also very secure. It has many layers of security, like hardware security and software security. This is a big issue."
"There are plenty of services from the database, with many valuable features, good scalability and agility, okay pricing, good solution quality, strong optimization, and customization that can work with any other cloud platforms."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Glean Platform has positively impacted my organization by speeding up a lot of repetitive tasks and making it easier for people outside of support to understand what kind of issues impact the support groups."
"The major impact that I have noticed is how business users are now being impacted and they are using the platform because they understand it easily."
"The best features Glean Platform offers are mostly the view, which I think is very good, and what I find most helpful about the view is that the user interface is very good, making it very easy to chat with the chatbot and get all the material that I want in the way that I need it."
"The best features Glean Platform offers include the ability to create my own agents, for example, I created a self-service agent for my stakeholders, so rather than email me, I sent them a link to an agent where the agent asks them questions and drills down to exactly what they need, and then I get a qualified response from them."
"Glean Platform has positively impacted our organization, especially in terms of productivity for both us and our customers."
"I have used many solutions, but Glean Platform is the best, and I would truly appreciate it if everyone considers this platform."
"Productivity has really skyrocketed."
"Life became so easy when we started using Glean Platform."
 

Cons

"The solution should improve the recovery aspects that it has on offer."
"Latlon data type only supports single value per document. All other types support multiple values. We faced issues with this because we had scenarios where, for each document, we needed to store multiple latlon values for different geographical locations."
"The biggest improvement area is that Amazon AWS CloudSearch feels a little older compared to newer AWS services."
"Regarding the period of propagation on CDN servers, sometimes we update photos or files and we don't see the update instantly. We need to wait for sometime, which is quite boring because we may be setting up a marketing campaign which is related to the product's photo and we need to wait to start."
"The price of the solution can be expensive."
"Index cleanup is sometimes painful. No easy way to clean indexes or a bulk of documents. Full indexing or regeneration of entire indexes sometimes gets stuck. In one instance, we had to delete the entire index and re-create it."
"Maybe they are common in Egypt, but you should make a request on Amazon to create a function to monitor CPU performance, memory, and files. It is very difficult in AWS. I would tell them it should be simple, just drag and drop. I think they could develop this option so we can drag and drop to monitor performance of the processor and memory."
"Amazon AWS CloudSearch is highly stable. However, the speed depends on your internet connection."
"Currently, Glean Platform does not integrate with Teams, Microsoft-owned platforms."
"Glean Platform can implement more models. The NLP creation could be a little faster, and while debugging is amazing, the routing also needs to provide higher quality outputs sometimes rather than extensive searching."
"Sometimes Glean Platform gets slowed down."
"I chose seven out of ten because if I could upload PDFs and have them analyzed, or have it integrate with my Gmail and help me go through my emails, that would be very useful, but I do not think it does that."
"Also, the latency that the platform offers is a little high right now; what I have noticed is that on a particular query, the user has to wait a long time in order to get responses."
"In workflow agents, I would prefer that we do not use AI in every step and instead we have a toggle button or something which can configure whether AI should be used in this specific search field or not, or in this specific node or not, because currently it's using AI in all nodes which sometimes messes up the output."
"There are multiple ways in which Glean Platform can be improved."
"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the licenses were expensive, and it was hard to convince the company to adopt based on that."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Our license costs around $4,000 per month."
"We chose AWS because of its cost and stability."
"There was no license needed to use this solution."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one point is cheap, and ten points are expensive, I rate the pricing as medium or reasonable."
"I'm not sure how much we pay a year. It might be around $30,000 a year."
"Amazon AWS CloudSearch charging is based on how many resources you consume or and the solution is known to be a bit expensive."
"In comparison to IBM and Microsoft, the pricing is more favorable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
11%
Construction Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise9
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon AWS CloudSearch?
We purchased Amazon AWS CloudSearch through the AWS Marketplace. Pricing was understandable once we estimated indexing volume and query traffic. Though it can grow if you scale instances aggressive...
What needs improvement with Amazon AWS CloudSearch?
Improvements for Amazon AWS CloudSearch can be made, but I will first start with the biggest improvement. The biggest improvement area is that Amazon AWS CloudSearch feels a little older compared t...
What is your primary use case for Amazon AWS CloudSearch?
The main use case for us was to search the operational records from our company databases and perform full-text search across operational records and uploaded documents. We needed something where u...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Glean Platform?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Glean Platform reveals limited options, and I wish there was more customization available.
What needs improvement with Glean Platform?
I would appreciate a change to the color scheme of Glean Platform as a needed improvement, even if it is something small or minor.
What is your primary use case for Glean Platform?
My main use case for Glean Platform is general use at an introductory level.
 

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